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Watercolour - A Wife - Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet

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Basic Information
Accession Number:	1906P656
Collection:	Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:	1860 - 1863

Maker Information
Artist:	John Everett Millais - View biography for John Everett Millais
Notes
A version of this illustration to the poem 'The Wife' was published in 'Once a Week' in 1860 (7 Jan., p. 32). The poem, signed 'A', deals with a loveless marriage. In Millais' illustration, the wife has just collapsed following the evocation of memories brought about by reading a favourite book from her school days. There is a finished sketch for the drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.

Further Information
Production Period:	19th century
Medium:	Watercolour with touches of bodycolour, on paper.
Material(s):	Watercolour
Dimensions
Height:	102 mm
Width:	127 mm