We’re all under the streetlamps, everyone’s the color of day-old piss. When I’m fifty, this is how I’ll remember my friends: tired and yellow and drunk.
Art by John Everett Millais: "Ophelia", 1851 - 1852
It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river.
Millais’s model for the painting was a young woman aged nineteen called Elizabeth Siddall. To create the effect of Elizabeth pretending to be Ophelia drowning in the river, she posed for Millais in a bath full of water. To keep the water warm some oil lamps were placed underneath.
While posing, Elizabeth wore a very fine silver embroidered dress bought by Millais from a second-hand shop for four pounds.