Love's Shadow
1867 painting by Frederick Sandys
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Love's Shadow is an 1867 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys. It was modeled by actress Mary Emma Jones, Sandys' common-law wife. The figure is richly adorned and biting the blooms from some blue violets, which are a symbol of love and devotion in Victorian floriography.[1]
The painting has been used as cover art in Christine Emba's 2022 novel Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, Chloe Michelle Howarth's 2025 novel Heap Earth Upon It,[2] as well as in Kirsten King's 2026 novel A Good Person.[3]
