The Dream
Maker
After
(artist)
1829-1896
(wood engraver)
(artist)
1829-1896
(wood engraver)
Title
The Dream
Date of Production
1857
Medium
wood engraving on paper
printed in black
printed in black
Dimensions
Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.7315
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Literature
Victorian Illustration: the Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians
Fig. p. see p. 364
Fig. p. see p. 364
Inscriptions
Inscription: Willmott. 1857
Inscription: And that was shining on him; he had look'd / Upon it till it could not pass away; / He had no breath, no being, but in hers: / She was his voice; he did not speak to her / But trembled on her words; She was his sight. / J. E. Millais. / Illustration to a poem entitled 'The Dream' by Byron in Wilmott's / 'Poets of the Nineteenth Century' 1857 ed.
Inscription: And that was shining on him; he had look'd / Upon it till it could not pass away; / He had no breath, no being, but in hers: / She was his voice; he did not speak to her / But trembled on her words; She was his sight. / J. E. Millais. / Illustration to a poem entitled 'The Dream' by Byron in Wilmott's / 'Poets of the Nineteenth Century' 1857 ed.
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