Lot 98
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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)
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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)

Studies of Emma Moreland for Tennyson's Edward Gray

Details
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)
Studies of Emma Moreland for Tennyson's Edward Gray
pencil
7½ x 4¾ in. (19 x 12 cm.)
Provenance
The Hon. Clare Stuart-Wortley, grand-daughter of the artist.
with Agnew's, London.
with Peter Nahum, London.
Literature
J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, I, p. 292.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The present drawing depicts studies for one of the illustrations to Edward Gray in the Moxon Tennyson, 1857, p. 340, which was engraved by J. Thompson. Emma Moreland is the village girl who meets the eponymous protagonist walking on the road, and whose questions elicit an outpouring of grief about his ill-fated love for Ellen Adair.

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