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Happy Springtime, 1860. Etching on ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper.
Etching on ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper · Image: 13.5 × 9.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Happy Springtime
- Artist
- Sir John Everett Millais English, 1829-1896
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- Etching on ivory wove chine laid down on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.5 × 9.8 cm (5 3/8 × 3 7/8 in.); Chine: 24.5 × 16.9 cm (9 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 31.9 cm (17 5/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection in honor of Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude
- 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.