Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British

Title:

Awful Protection Against Midges

Date:

1853

Materials & Techniques:

Pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches (16.5 x 11.1 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left: "Awful protection against midges".

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1996.9.2

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

smoking (activity) | sketching | insects | genre subject | children

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Unto This Last (Watts Gallery) (Watts Gallery Trust, 2020-03-10 - 2020-11-01)

Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)

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

Millais (Van Gogh Museum, 2008-02-15 - 2008-05-18)

Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)

Publications:

Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 165, cat. 24, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Charlotte Gould, British art and the environment : changes, challenges, and responses since the Industrial Revolution, New York, p. 30, fig. 1.2, N8217.E28 B75 2022 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4889