

Left: John Everett Millais's pencil design of 1848 for The Woodman's Daughter, scanned from Millais I: 92. Right: Drawing, signed and dated in pen and gray ink lower right: "JE Millais | 1849," in pen and gray and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on beige wove paper, measuring 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm). Source: Yale Center for British Art, accession no. B1979.23 (public domain).
Links to Related Material
- The Woodman's Daughter (the finished painting of 1850-51)
- Discussion by David Wilkes of the work in connection with F.G. Stephens's The Porposal (see last four paragraphs)

Image on left scanned by George P. Landow, and image on right downloaded by Jacqueline Banerjee, who added the text using details from the same source. [You may reproduce these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose, but please credit the website and/or link to it on a webpage.]
Bibliography
Millais, John Guile. The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy. 2 vols. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899.
Study for The Woodman's Daughter. Yale Center for British Art. Web. 19 February 2024.
Created 16 September 2004
Last modified 19 February 2024