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Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso), 1853. Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory paper.
Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory paper · 23.2 × 11.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso)
- Artist
- Sir John Everett Millais English, 1829-1896
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory paper
- Dimensions
- 23.2 × 11.5 cm (9 3/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake and Sarah R. Shorey endowments
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1829–1896
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.