Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British

Title:

The Blind Man

Date:

1853

Materials & Techniques:

Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "SMITH PA | AR STATIONER"; in pen and brown ink,, upper center: "PITY THE | BLIND"; in pen and brown ink, upper right: "3p"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "JEM | 1853"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1980.12

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

beggar | street | signs | genre subject | blind (people)

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Pre-Raphaelites - Victorian Avant-Garde (National Gallery of Art, 2013-02-26 - 2013-05-20)

Millais (Tate Britain, 2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13)

Hard Times (Manchester City Galleries, 1987-11-14 - 1988-01-10)

Hard Times (Van Gogh Museum, 1988-01-24 - 1988-03-13)

British Drawings (Davis & Langdale Co.) (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1985-05-01 - 1985-05-31)

Pre-Raphaelites (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28)

Publications:

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Susan Fagence Cooper, The model wife, the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais , Duckworth Overlook, London, 2010, pp. 97-98, fig. 14, PR5263 C67 2010 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Julian Treuherz, Hard times : social realism in Victorian art, Lund Humphries, London, 1987, pp. 29-30, 141, no. 15, N6767.5 .V52 T74 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11178