{"type":"artobject","objectid":3342,"objectnumber":"x1942-113","sortnumber":"1942 113x","displaytitle":"Study for The Woodman's Daughter","department":"Prints and Drawings","classification":"Drawings","datebegin":1850,"dateend":1850,"datecomputed":1850,"daterange":"A.D. 1850-1900","displaydate":"1850","medium":"Graphite with touches of pen and brown ink","dimensions":"24.4 x 17.2 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.","markings":null,"inscribed":"in ink, upper right: Jack Millais","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1942-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":3758,"displayname":"Sir John Everett Millais","displaydate":"1829–1896; born Southampton, England; died London, England","datebegin":1829,"dateend":1896,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896; born Southampton, England; died London, England","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"A study for Millais’s celebrated painting of 1850–51 now in the Guildhall Gallery in London, this drawing takes its subject from Coventry Patmore’s poem “The Woodman’s Daughter,” first published in 1844. Its story centers on Maud, the titular daughter once content in her childhood innocence but later seduced by a wealthy squire’s son, who ultimately abandons her and their illegitimate child. In this scene, Maud guilelessly takes strawberries from the hand of her future lover while her father works in the background. The commanding pose of the squire’s son, contrasted by Maud’s self-contained deference, perhaps hints at the tragedy to come.","remarks":"K2 Corridor: “A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror”: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and the Visual Arts"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"From “Romantic Art in Britain”, Detroit Institute of Arts exhibition catalogue: dates ca. 1850-1851 (J.G. Millais dates it 1848). (See reference Bib. 4138);","remarks":"From accession card. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nThis small graphite sketch is a study for a celebrated painting from 1851 by Millais now in the Guildhall Gallery, London. The composition illustrates lines from The Woodman's Daughter by the Victorian poet Coventry Patmore (1823–96), first published in 1844. Much admired by the Pre-Raphaelites, Patmore’s poem tells the tragic tale of Maud, a poor woodman’s daughter who is happy in her childhood innocence before she is seduced over time by the wealthy squire’s son, who ultimately abandons her with their illegitimate child. In the drawing, as in the finished painting, Millais represents Maud guilelessly receiving strawberries from the squire’s son, rendered with the graphic simplicity of a fairytale. 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