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Egmont / M [monogram].

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Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896

Egmont / M [monogram].

[London : s.n., 1868?]
wood engraving
image: 94 x 138 mm; sheet: 116 x 173 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.942
Notes
Proof on India paper of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by John Everett Millais to serve as a frontispiece to Arthur Duke Coleridge's English translation of Goethe's Egmont. London : Chapman and Hall, 1868.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "Millais for Egmont translation to Goethe's Egmont (1868)" at right.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Illustration shows Egmont asleep on his couch with the angelic figure of Freedom hovering over him.

Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints