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

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

Studies of Emma Moreland for Tennyson's Edward Gray

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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.)

The Hon. Clare Stuart-Wortley, grand-daughter of the artist.
with Agnew's, London.
with Peter Nahum, London.

Specialist note

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.