Sir John Everett Millais P.R.A.
Southampton 1829 - 1896 London
Millais, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelites, like Holman Hunt, joined The Etching Club, though by the mid-1850's,
when they became members, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
itself (founded 1848) had dissolved. From that period
Millais's painting
became increasingly 'Academic' (he would be elected
President of the Royal Academy in 1896) and sentimental.
The
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, several of whose members
were also poets themselves, had, like the Etching
Club, a strong literary bias. Millais etched a total
of eleven plates between 1850 and 1878. Of these,
five were published by the old Etching Club and
three were produced under the auspices of the Junior
Etching Club.
Ruth
Hartnoll & Eyre 26
128 x 87 mm (borderline); 179 x 129 mm (sheet) [plate 230 x 171 mm]
Original
etching, 1858. The plate signed with the monogram
and the dated. Printed on laid india paper on cream
wove with narrow margins. Presumably as originally
issued in Passages from the Poems of Thomas
Hood, illustrated by the Junior Etching Club,
published by E Gambart 1858, but the india paper
since dislaid and relaid.
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Additional
Information about the Print
Millais' etching 'illustrated' Thomas
Hood's poem "Ruth" and relates to the fourth
of the five stanzas.
And
her hat with shady brim,
Made
her tressy forehead dim; -
Thus she stood amid
the stooks
Praising God with sweetest looks.
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