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These studies were for an etching to illustrate a poem entitled 'Ruth' appearing in Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood (etchings by the Junior Etching Club), 1858:And her hat, with shady brim,Made her tressy forehead dim; - Thus she stood amid the stooksPraising God with sweetest looks. The etching appeared as plate 27 in the volume. Another sketch for the same subject is reproduced in J. G. Millais' The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais (vol. 1, p. 327). Millais also illustrated another poem in the volume - 'The Bridge of Sighs'.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

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Artist John Everett Millais -

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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman 2004 Lund Humphries, Aldershot B89
 
Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood (llustrated by the Junior Etching Club)
1858 E Gambart & Co, London plate 27.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 278.

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