Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

This drawing relates to the published wood-engraving for 'The Eve of St Agnes' in Tennyson's 'Poems' , published by Moxon in 1857 (p. 309). This drawing shows Millais' experimentation with posture and design. This work, along with two other sketches for the same poem, was exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1901.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	John Everett Millais	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Millais, PRB, PRA
349	Royal Academy, London	1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05
349	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30

Tennyson (1809-1892): A Centenary Celebration
264	Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust)	1992-03-10 - 1992-06-30
264	Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln	1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30

John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
6	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	2004-10-16 - 2005-01-16
6	Leighton House, London	2005-02-18 - 2005-04-29

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Poems [Moxon Tennyson]
	1857	Edward Moxon, London	p. 309.

Tennyson (1809-1892): A Centenary Celebration
Professor Robert Woof	1992	Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere	cat. no. 264.

John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman	2004	Lund Humphries, Aldershot	cat. no. 6 / B83.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby	p. 273.