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Sir John Everett Millais
1829-1896
The drowning of Kaer-Is / M [monogram] ; Swain sc.
[London : s.n., 1862?]
wood engraving
image: 113 x 128 mm; sheet: 161 x 155 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.944
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Inscription:
Inscribed "'The drowning of Kaer-Is' Once a week, 1862, vi, 687" at bottom.
Notes:
Proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by John Everett Millais for the poem of the same title in Once a week, v. vi, 1862, p. 687.
Summary:
Illustration shows Dahut, the daughter of King Gradlon, approaching her sleeping father to steal the key to the sluice gate protecting the town of Kaer-Is.
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