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A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1857) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting a medieval knight helping two young peasant children over a swollen river. The children are carrying heavy burdens of wood for winter fuel. Though the title refers to the medieval poem Sir Isumbras the painting does not illustrate a scene from the original text. However Millais’s friend the writer Tom Taylor wrote verse in a pastiche of the original poem describing the event depicted.
