Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British
Title:
Accepted
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (25.1 × 17.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left: "To be painted moonlight"; in pen and brown ink lower center: "Accepted."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.849
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
baby | balls (parties) | dance | figure study | child | motherhood | genre subject | courtship | woman
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Millais (Tate Britain, 2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13)

Pre-Raphaelites (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28)
Publications:
Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 87-8, no. 59, fig. 22, N7630 C27 + (YCBA)

Susan Fagence Cooper, The model wife, the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais , Duckworth Overlook, London, 2010, pp. 96-97, fig. 13, PR5263 C67 2010 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11148