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This is a preparatory drawing for an unpublished etching intended for the fifth number of The Germ periodical to illustrate a story by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery also has one of the few surviving etchings of the same subject of a fifteenth-century painter painting his mortally ill lover.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
John Everett Millais |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings and Studies for Pictures Made by the Late J. E. Millais Bart, P.R.A. |
29 or 33 |
Fine Art Society, London |
1901 - 1901 |
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The Collection of Drawings and Studies by Sir E Burne-Jones... |
485i |
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery |
1913 - 1913 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
253a |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites: A Loan Exhibition... |
52 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
1948-04-08 - 1948-05-12 |
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Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
41 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - 1955 |
41 |
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
1955 - 1955-10 |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
249 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05 |
249 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30 |
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The Drawings of John Everett Millais |
67 |
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery (and tour) |
1979-07-07 - 1979-12-16 |
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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
1 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
2004-10-16 - 2005-01-16 |
1 |
Leighton House, London |
2005-02-18 - 2005-04-29 |
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Millais |
17a |
Tate Britain, London and tour |
2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais |
John Guille Millais |
1899 |
Methuen & Co, London |
vol. 1, p. 67. |
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Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott |
W Minto |
1892 |
James R Osgood, London |
vol. 1, p. 284. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby |
p. 265. |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
Mary Bennett |
1967 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
p. 75. |
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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
Paul Goldman |
2004 |
Lund and Humphries, Aldershot |
cat. no. 1 / B24. |
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Millais |
Alison Smith, Heather Birchall, Jason Rosenfeld |
2007 |
Tate Publishing, London |
cat. no. 67 / p. 43. |
Provenance
Geoffroy and John Guille Millais by 1899; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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