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Quotation from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

“That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.”

Robert Browning (spoken by The Duke)

My Last Duchess, Lines 1-2 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition))

Portrait of Robert Browning

The opening introduces the portrait; the word last already hints that there have been others, or will be.

Citation: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive." — Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Lines 1-2 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition)). (id my-last-duchess-q1)

Portrait: Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud, circa 1888, Herbert Rose Barraud / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.

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