How does The Hireling Shepherd elucidate its abstract?
The Hireling Shepherd (1851) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It represents a shepherd neglecting his flock in favour of an attractive country girl to whom he shows a death's-head hawkmoth. The meaning of the image has been much debated.
William Holman Hunt death's-head hawkmoth Pre-Raphaelite