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Summer Indolence, 1861. Etching on ivory wove paper.
Etching on ivory wove paper · Plate: 17.5 × 25.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Summer Indolence
- Artist
- Sir John Everett Millais English, 1829-1896
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- Etching on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 17.5 × 25.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 21.1 × 27 cm (8 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- 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.




