I remember seeing this everywhere in older peoples homes in Donegal.
It showed a small girl crying, facing a wall, with a dog standing close behind her. It looks like it’s by Charles Burton Barber, but I’m more interested in why was it everywhere. Do other people remember this hanging in people’s houses? Why was it so widespread?
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There used to be a picture of a Girl Crying at my Uncle’s House…Really freaked me out as a Kid.
Not this but I remember the pair of pictures, a crying girl in one, a crying girl in the other.
Crying boy picture and crying girl picture together was meant to be cursed or some crazy shit. I mind when I was young my dad burning them in the back garden when he heard this.
Freemasons. Gnosis symbols all over it.
We had this picture in our sitting room. I have no idea why.
Edit: Charles Burton Barber was a favourite painter of queen Victoria, and in the 1980s there was a big revival of Victorian art (also clothes etc, hence the popularity of Laura Ashley and chintz)
This picture was the best selling print in 1983.
Someone else was wondering about that yoke.
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/this-sentimental-print-of-a-little-girl-crying-and-her-collie-dog-adorned-sitting-rooms-across-northern-ireland-in-the-1980s-4393968
I think it’s just a relatable image that also looks sort of posh. Middle aged women like that sort of thing.
🤯 my aunt and mates Ma across the street hat it!
Ye? Are you a pirate?
My Nanna had this on the wall. She lived in northern England.
Offer on them in woolworths at the time.
My Nan had the original.
She also had the Green Chinese lady painting.
Jaysus wtf? How
Was on my granny’s sitting room wall
We still have this in the hallway at home. Most depressing picture. Even the dog is stressed out. It’s certainly was a choice.