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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.481.D
People
John Everett Millais, British (Southampton, England 1829 - 1896 London, England)
Title
The Foolish Virgins
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298164

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
14.1 x 10.6 cm (5 9/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: watercolor, l.l.: monogram
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Right
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 4 [encircled]

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.D
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
  • 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. 9-4, 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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