Stella

1876

Not on view

Atkinson's print is based on a painting by Millais, the subject taken from Jonathan Swift's "A Journal to Stella" (1766). Shown three-quarter length, the young woman holds an open letter from a male correspondent with additional love tokens displayed on an adjacent bureau. First shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1868, Millais's eighteenth-century themed work is now in the Manchester Art Gallery. This print was published as a pendant with "Vanessa," the latter showing another Swift heroine painted by Millais. A critic in "The Art Journal" thought that the subjects had been "very skilfully multiplied" by the printmaker, and commented that such "agreeable adornments for a drawing room have seldom been brought within our reach."

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Stella
Engraver: Thomas Lewis Atkinson (British, Salisbury 1817–1898)
Artist: After Sir John Everett Millais (British, Southampton 1829–1896 London)
Publisher: Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. (London)
Publisher: Knoedler and Co.
Author: Related author Jonathan Swift (Irish, Dublin 1667–1745 Dublin)
Date: 1876
Medium: Mixed method engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 17 3/16 x 21 15/16 in. (43.7 x 55.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Object Number: 42.119.293
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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