Illustrations by John Everett Millais

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Introduction and Critical Analyses

• Biographical Introduction
• Photographs of Millais
• John Everett Millais as an Illustrator — Significant Gesture, Expressive Line, and Emblematic Detail

Illustrations for specific authors

• Millais’s Illustrations for Trollope — an Introduction
• Millais as an Illustrator and Interpreter of Trollope
• Working in Harness: Millais, Trollope, and Serialization
• Chaste Longing: Illustrations of Rossetti and Millais for the Moxon Tennyson
• Artistic Choices in Millais's Illustration for Tennyson's "Mariana"
• [Waiting at Euston:] Illustration for Dinah Craik's Mistress and Maid

Work in Other Genres

• Paintings
• Drawings

The Moxon Tennyson Mariana The Miller's Daughter The Miller's Daughter The Sisters A Dream of Fair Women A Dream of Fair Women The Death of the Old Year Dora Dora The Talking Oak The Talking Oak Locksley Hall Locksley Hall St. Agnes' Eve The Day-Dream The Day-Dream Edward Gray The Lord of Burleigh Framley Parsonage The Crawley Family The Crawley Family (watercolor) Lord Lufton and Lucy Robartes "Mark", she said, "the men are here" Was it not a lie? Lady Lufton and the Duke of Omnium Mrs. Gresham and Miss Dunstable The Parables of Our Lord The Hidden Treasure The Unmerciful Servant The Labourers in the Vinyard The Parable of the Leaven The Parable of the Ten Virgins The Prodigal Son The Good Samaritan The Unjust Judge The Pharisee and the Publican The Hid Treasure The Pearl of Great Price

Orley Farm Orley Farm [Frontispiece] Sir Peregrine and his heir There was sorrow in her heart And then they all marched out of the room There is nothing like iron, Sir, nothing Mr Furnival’s welcome home Your son Lucius did you say – shopping Over their wine Von Bauhr’s dream The English Von Bauhr’s and his pupil Christmas at Noningsby – Morning Christmas at Noningsby – Evening Why should I not? Monkton Grange Felix Graham in trouble Footsteps in the corridor The Angel of Light Lucius Mason contemplates his debts Peregrine’s eloquence Lady Staveley interrupting her son and Sophia Furnival Lady Mason leaving the Court John Kennedy and Miriam Dockwrath Guilty Lady Mason after her confession Bread sauce is so ticklish Never is a very long word ‘“Tom,” she said, “I have come back again’” Lady Mason going before the Magistrates Sir Peregrine at Mr Round’s office “Tell me, Madeline, are you happy now?” No Surrender Mr Chaffanbrass and Mr Solomon Aram The Court The drawing room at Noningsby “And how are they all at Noningsby?” “How can I bear it?” Bridget Bolster in Court Lucius Mason Farewell (1) Farewell (2) Miscellaneous Love Polly On the Water Untitled [kneeling girl praying at window] Frontispiece to Wilkie Collins's No Name Margaret Wilson

Bibliography

Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996.

Gresty, Hilary. 'Millais and Trollope: Author and Illustrator' Book Collector 30 (1981):43-61.

Hall, N. John. Trollope and His Illustrators. London: Macmillan, 1980.

Life, Allan R. 'The Periodical Illustrations of John Everett Millais and Their Literary Interpretation', Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 10:2 (June 1977): 47-68.

Millais, John Guille. The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais President of the Royal Academy. 2 vols. London: Methuen, 1899.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties. 1928; reprint, New York: Dover, 1975.

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