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The Dream

Maker

After
(artist)
1829-1896

(wood engraver)

Title

The Dream

Date of Production

1857

Medium

wood engraving on paper
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 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

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.

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