A Wife - Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet1860 – 1863 Accession number: 1906P656 Watercolour with touches of bodycolour, on paper. Width: 127 mm Height: 102 mm InformationA version of this illustration to the poem 'The Wife' was published in 'Once a Week' in 1860 (7 Jan., p. 32). The poem, signed 'A', deals with a loveless marriage. In Millais' illustration, the wife has just collapsed following the evocation of memories brought about by reading a favourite book from her school days. There is a finished sketch for the drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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