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When Sir Joshua
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painting in a feigned oval depicts a myopic
Johnson in his signature brown coat squintingly reading an unbound book or a pamphlet bent back to front by holding it close to his face, with light falling on his face and hands. Reynolds, who was himself deaf, may have linked the portrait to an earlier
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had no such difficulties about himself, and that he might observe the picture which hung up in the room where we were talking represented Sir Joshua holding his ear in his hand to catch the sound. "He may paint himself as deaf if he chooses," replied
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template beginning in 2012, often used to express confusion or shock in reaction to a line of text or an absurd situation. The painting is typically featured alongside a second painting of
Johnson by Reynolds from 1772, showing Johnson with a bewildered facial expression. The meme is often
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at approximately two years of age, both of which severely affected his eyesight. His left eye was weaker than his right, although the latter had been inflamed in 1756. Various sources attest to his
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