Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso)

Provenance

Given by Lady Millais to her daughter, Sophie MacEwen, 1896 [notes in the curatorial file]. Sold by the Maas Gallery, London, to the Art Institute. 1996.

Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso)

Sir John Everett Millais

1853

Accession Number

145137

Medium

Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory paper

Dimensions

23.2 × 11.5 cm (9 3/16 × 4 9/16 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake and Sarah R. Shorey endowments