Ophelia — Head Study (the head of Elizabeth Siddal), by Sir John Everett Millais Bt PRA (1829-96). 1852. © Birmingham Museums Trust, reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 licence as an illustration for "Textualizing and Screening Pre-Raphaelite Paintings in Lisa Klein's and Clare McCarthy’s Ophelia." Ophelia's head, beautiful in repose (and clearly modelled on the head of Lizzie Siddal) will appear in the finished oil painting of Millais's famous Ophelia.
Image download, text and formatting by Jacqueline Banerjee.
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The Pre-Raphaelites. London: Tate Gallery/Allen Lane, 1984. No. 40: 96-97.
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