Summer Indolence, from "Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club"
Sir John Everett Millais British
Publisher Day & Son, Ltd., London British
Not on view
This figure of a young woman lying in the warm grass derives from Millais's painting of 1856-9 "Spring (Apple Blossoms)" (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) and was modeled for by Alice Elizabeth Gray (1845-1929), a younger sister of the arti'st wife Effie.