The Baby-House
1871 – 1872
Accession number: 1972P71
Etching printed in black ink, on India paper applied to cream wove paper.
Width: 370 mm
Height: 264 mm
Information
The Victorian nursery, with its dolls and dolls' houses, provides an early training in motherhood. Millais, perhaps not insignificantly, entitles his etching The Baby House.
- Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | John Everett Millais | - |
Inscriptions
| Type | Position(s) | Method | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. E. Millais R.A. / The baby-house. / monogram / 9 | ||||
| - | - | Etched | - | Ink |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacred Bond: Images of Motherhood | |||
| - | Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | 1990-09-22 - 1990-11-18 | |
| Original Printmaking in Britain 1600-1900 | |||
| 172 | Colnaghi, London | 1972-11-02 - 1972-12-01 | |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator | |||
| Paul Goldman | 2004 | Lund Humphries, Aldershot | B226 |
| Etchings for the Art Union of London by the Etching Club | |||
| 1872 | Unknown | plate 9. | |
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