File:John Everett Millais - A Wife - Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet.jpg

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John Everett Millais: A Wife - Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet  wikidata:Q98149518 reasonator:Q98149518
Artist
John Everett Millais  (1829–1896)  wikidata:Q159606 s:en:Author:John Everett Millais
 
John Everett Millais
Description British painter and illustrator
English: One of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Date of birth/death 8 June 1829 Edit this at Wikidata 13 August 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Southampton (Hampshire) London
Work location
London; Chamonix-Mont-Blanc; Paris; Italy; Amsterdam; Dordrecht; Haarlem; Leiden; The Hague; Geneva Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q159606
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Title
A Wife - Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The figure of a woman weeping. She kneels next to a table. The wooden chair she was sitting on stands behind her. There is an open book in front of her on the table. In the background there is a window through which a landscape can be seen.

A version of this illustration to the poem 'The Wife' was published in 'Once a Week' in 1860 (7 Jan., p. 32). The poem, signed 'A', deals with a loveless marriage. In Millais' illustration, the wife has just collapsed following the evocation of memories brought about by reading her old hopeful diaries from her school-days.

There is a finished sketch for the drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Date between 1860 and 1863
date QS:P571,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Watercolour with touches of bodycolour, on paper
Dimensions height: 10.2 cm (4 in); width: 12.7 cm (5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,10.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,12.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1799857
Current location
Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1906P656
Credit line Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906
Inscriptions Artist's monogram bottom right
References Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery prints
Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
Source/Photographer Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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