Publication date: May 2025

Paperback – 215 mm x 140 mm – 168 pages

Eighty illustrations in black and white

ISBN 9781843682684

Reprinted for the first time since 1865, this anthology brings together 80 of Millais’s finest illustrations. Collected from his work for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins and the weekly periodicals over most of his long working life, these prints range from visionary romance to comedy of manners. Together they represent some of the finest black and white work of the Victorian era.

Sir John Everett Millais, P. R. A. (1829-1896), was the most precociously talented artist England has ever produced. His astonishing facility gained him entry as the Royal Academy’s youngest ever pupil – he was known to the end of his days to friends as ‘The Child’. When only just nineteen he founded with six other painters the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which revolutionised the English art world with a visionary intensity of both subject matter and style. Although Millais soon abandoned the Pre-Raphaelite style, with an increasingly broad use of paint, and an interest in aestheticism, portraiture and stirring national historical subjects, he remained the pre-eminent painter of his period. Not least amongst his achievements was a revival of serious black and white work. His drawings were widely published and became very influential, leading to the creation of a distinct and greatly respected English school of print-making. This book, collected by his publisher, shows the wide range of his work.