The work of 1850, "The Child Jesus in the Workshop of Joseph the Carpenter," illustrated a verse in the Bible (Zechariah xiii. 6): "And one shall say unto Him, What are these wounds in Thine hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of My friends." The Child Jesus, who is standing before the joiner's bench, has hurt Himself in the hand. St. Joseph is leaning over to look at the wound, and Mary is kneeling beside the Child, trying to console Him with her caresses, whilst the little St. John is bringing water in a wooden vessel. Upon the other side of the bench stands the aged Anna, in the act of drawing out of the wood the nail which has caused the injury. A workman is labouring busily at the joiner's bench. The floor of the workshop is littered with shavings, and tools hang round upon the walls. The Quattrocentisti were likewise the determining influence in the treatment of this subject. Ascetic austerity has taken the place of ideal draperies, and angularity that of the noble flow of line. The figure of Mary, who, with her yellow kerchief, resembled the wife of a London citizen, was the cause of special offence. [Illustration: _Mag. of Art._ MILLAIS. THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE. (_By permission of Messrs. Thomas Agnew & Co., the owners of the copyright._)] [Illustration: _Cassell & Co._ MILLAIS. YES OR NO?] [Illustration: _L'Art._ MILLAIS. MRS. BISCHOFFSHEIM. (_By permission of Mrs. Bischoffsheim, the owner of the picture._)]