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Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896
Egmont / M [monogram].
[London : s.n., 1868?]
wood engraving
image: 94 x 138 mm; sheet: 116 x 173 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.942
Notes
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by John Everett Millais to serve as a frontispiece to Arthur Duke Coleridge's English translation of Goethe's Egmont. London : Chapman and Hall, 1868.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "Millais for Egmont translation to Goethe's Egmont (1868)" at right.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration shows Egmont asleep on his couch with the angelic figure of Freedom hovering over him.
Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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