Drawing intended to illustrate a story by D.G. Rossetti by Sir John Everett Millais Bt PRA (1829-96). 1850. Pencil on paper. Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, kindly made available on the Creative Commons 0 licence (Public Domain). Also reproduced in Millais, I, 67. Note that the drawing served as a compositional sketch for an etching for the Germ. Although the volume for which the etching was prepared was never published, a few prints of it exist.
Image and text originally added by George P. Landow, with new image and additional text added later by Dennis T. Lanigan.
Bibliography
Millais, John Guille. The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy. 2 vols. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899.
Created 16 September 2004
Last modified 17 April 2025