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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
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Inscription:
Inscribed "Millais for Egmont translation to Goethe's Egmont (1868)" at right.
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.
Summary:
Illustration shows Egmont asleep on his couch with the angelic figure of Freedom hovering over him.
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