In John Brewster's "beguiling" painting of "two-year-old Francis

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In John Brewster's "beguiling" painting of "two-year-old Francis Osborne Watts” in his own boyish, lightish blue gown (1805) - blue like Francis's own eyes, blue like the "forget-me-not" blue eyes of Captain Hook "of a profound melancholy" (P&W, 115), blue like Hook's eyes which were also "as soft as the periwinkle" (P&W, 180),

blue like Sylvia Llewelyn Davis's blue dress so loved and fondly remembered as her image, blue like the umbilical string that unconvincingly keeps the delicate bird on Frances's leash - bird and boy are tied together in a pre-Oedipal innocence before flight.

《Reading Boyishly》，Carol Mavor