Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896
Annie Wray Ties Martin Blunt's New Cravat. Verso: slight sketch for the painting Ophelia
1852
6 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches (156 x 99 mm)
Graphite on light gray wove paper.
1973.15
Purchased as the gift of Viscount Astor.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Study for the frontispiece to Wilkie Collins' "Mr. Wray's Cash-Box or The Mask and the Mystery, a Christmas Sketch", London, Richard Bentley, 1852. The verso contains a study related to the artist's painting "Ophelia", now in the Tate Gallery, London.
Study for the frontispiece to Wilkie Collins' "Mr. Wray's Cash-Box or The Mask and the Mystery, a Christmas Sketch", London, Richard Bentley, 1852. The verso contains a study related to the artist's painting "Ophelia", now in the Tate Gallery, London.
Associated names
Astor, Viscount, donor.
Bibliography
The Pre-Raphaelite Influence, exhibition catalouge, Maas Gallery, London, 1963, no. 63.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 174.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 174.
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Century Drawings
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