In the context of this artwork, discuss the Ongoing legacy of the Reception.
The current owners of the painting, The Royal Holloway College, note how the painting became a symbol and discussion point for women's rights during the 1870s. The Babylonian Marriage Market was noted to resonate with the women of the 1870s, in light of the women's suffrage movement. The painting is still currently thought of a symbol which embodies this goal of gender equality. The silent film Intolerance (1916) includes a seven‐and‐a‐half‐minute scene closely based on this painting, and it is recreated in the historical sequence in The Marriage Market (1923).
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