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The Young Mother, 1857. Etching on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper.
Etching on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper · Plate: 20.5 × 16 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Young Mother
- Artist
- Sir John Everett Millais English, 1829-1896
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Etching on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.5 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.6 × 26.7 cm (14 7/16 × 10 9/16 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.