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My Beautiful Lady (top); Of My Lady in Death (bottom), frontispiece to The Germ, No. 1, 1850. Etching on chine paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé).
Etching on chine paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé) · Plate: 20.3 × 12 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- My Beautiful Lady (top); Of My Lady in Death (bottom), frontispiece to The Germ, No. 1
- Artist
- William Holman Hunt English, 1827-1910
- Date
- 1850
- Medium
- Etching on chine paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.3 × 12 cm (8 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 43.6 × 29.8 cm (17 3/16 × 11 3/4 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 1827–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.