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John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais

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John Everett Millais

Noted English painter and illustrator (1829–1896). ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7.25, June 5, 1861. Millais writes to Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In part: “In looking over some very beautiful unpublished wood engravings from Birket Foster it occurred to me how valuable it would be if they could be published with some half dozen descriptive lines of yours…The illustrations are certainly the very best rendering of English landscape in engraving I have seen…worthy of something better than a hodgepodge of poets…I should have sent you the drawings of Mrs. Tennyson.” Light intersecting horizontal and vertical folds, lower right corner crease, some toning to the first page, and show-through from text on opposing sides, otherwise fine condition. Tennyson would eventually decline and Tom Taylor wrote the text for Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. RRAuction COA.

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  • Dates: #377 - Ended October 12, 2011