The Blind Girl

Sir John Everett Millais Bt PRA (1829-96)

1856

Oil on canvas

32 x 24 1/2 inches

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Detail of butterfly

Related Materials

• Combining Details and Mood in The Blind Girl
• Sympathy and Vividness in Millais's The Blind Girl
• Discussion of The Blind Girl in Landow, "Rainbows: problematic images of problematic nature"
• A possible source in Renaissance emblems

Bibliography

Landow, George P. "Rainbows: problematic images of problematic nature" in Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present. Boston and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

The Pre-Raphaelites. London: Tate Gallery/Allen Lane, 1984. No. 89. Pp. 134-36.

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