Summer Indolence, from "Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club"
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Summer Indolence, from "Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club"
- Artist: Sir John Everett Millais (British, Southampton 1829–1896 London)
- Publisher: Day & Son, Ltd., London
- Date: 1861
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 × 9 1/4 in. (15.2 × 23.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Object Number: 17.3.3274
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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