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Woman embracing her dead lover [The Garden Widow ?]: P.1131-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Woman embracing her dead lover [The Garden Widow ?]
The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets

Maker(s)

Designer: Millais, John Everett
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1858

Note

Illustration to The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets, Charles Mackay ed., 1858, p. 359.

Letterpress on verso.

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Sheet Height 221 mm Width 164 mm
Image Height 94 mm Width 126 mm

Techniques used in production

Wood engraving

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: JM
  • Location: Image lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Monogram
  • Text: DALZIEL SC
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: 359
  • Location: Lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Number

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1131-1991
Primary reference Number: 24174
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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