Information

The sketch is for Millais' oil painting of the same name (1853; Tate). In this sketch Anne Ryan is the model for the female character but for the final painting Effie Ruskin modelled.

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

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist John Everett Millais -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
The Ransom
Title below image Written - In pen and ink
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Millais, PRB, PRA
285 Royal Academy, London 1967-01-14 - 1967-03-051967-01-011967-03-05
285 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
John Guille Millais 1899 Methuen, London vol. 1, p. 169.
 
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. 269.
 
Millais, PRB, PRA
Mary Bennett 1967 Royal Academy of Arts, London p. 81.
 
John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman 2004 Lund Humphries, Aldershot B37
 
The Drawings of John Everett Millais
Malcolm Warner 1979 Arts Council of Great Britain, London p. 29.

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