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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.481.A
People
John Everett Millais, British (Southampton, England 1829 - 1896 London, England)
Title
The Good Samaritan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298031

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
14.5 x 10.7 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: watercolor, l.r.: monogram
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: left

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From catalogue card: Collection: William Graham, Lady Muir Mackenzie (née Graham), Mme. Mark Homburg (née Mackenzie)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.481.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 58
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 57, repr.
  • Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Graham: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector", The Sixty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society, The Walpole Society (Leeds, 2000), pp. 145-343, c84 (p. 298)
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 9-1, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002

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