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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-john-everett-millais-bt-379" aria-label="More by Sir John Everett Millais, Bt" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir John Everett Millais, Bt</a>
NorthWest Passage
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
author
basket
book - non-specific
chair
contemplation
daughter
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
exploration: North-West Passage
family
father
features
fine arts and music
flag, Union Flag
flag, White Ensign
flower
food and drink
fruit - non-specific
furnishings
glass
government and politics
history
holding hands
individuals: male
interiors
jug
kitchen
leisure and pastimes
literary
living room
man, old
map
named individuals
navigation chart
objects
painting
patriotism
people
plants and flowers
politics and society
portraits
print
reading
reading, writing, printed matter
recreational activities
religious and ceremonial
sailor
scientific and measuring
sea
seascapes and coasts
sitting
society
table
trading and commercial
Trelawney, Edward
vessels and containers
window
woman
work and occupations
<p>The north-west passage is a dangerous sea route round North America via the Canadian Arctic. For centuries, European explorers attempted to use it as a trade route to Asia. It became associated with failure, adversity and death, with ships and their crews battling against hopeless odds in a frozen wilderness. Millais painted this when an English expedition was setting off. Millais suggests the risks of the voyage through the grim expression of the old seaman. His daughter is pictured beside him, reading from a log book.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2018</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
24 October 2001 – 11 July 2005
2005-07-11
24 October 2001
2001-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-24
Making British History
Collection based display
26 September 2007 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
26 September 2007 – 13 January 2008
2008-01-13
2007-09-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
15 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
2008-05-18
2008-02-15
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
7 June 2008 – 17 August 2008
2008-08-17
2008-06-07
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu-City, Japan)
30 August 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
2008-08-30
Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
2007-09-26
Millais
Exhibition
15 February 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
15 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
2008-05-18
2008-02-15
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
7 June 2008 – 17 August 2008
2008-08-17
2008-06-07
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu-City, Japan)
30 August 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
2008-08-30
Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
2008-02-15
Millais
Loan-out
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
18 August 2009 – 14 November 2010
2010-11-14
2009-08-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-18
Sublime
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016
2016-04-10
25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016
2016-04-10
2015-11-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
3 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
2016-10-03
National Gallery of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
2015-11-25
Artist and Empire
Exhibition
25 November 2015 – 26 March 2017
2017-03-26
6 October 2016 – 26 March 2017
2017-03-26
2016-10-06
National Gallery of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
2015-11-25
Artist and Empire
Loan-out
The North-West Passage
support: 1765 × 2222 mm
frame: 2157x 2623 × 145 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
<div><p><span>The north-west passage is a dangerous sea route round North America via the Canadian Arctic. For centuries, European explorers attempted to use it as a trade route to Asia. It became associated with failure, adversity and death, with ships and their crews battling against hopeless odds in a frozen wilderness. John Everett Millais painted this when an English expedition was setting off. Millais suggests the risks of the voyage through the grim expression of the old seaman. His daughter is pictured beside him, reading from a log book.</span></p></div>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults architecture author basket book - non-specific chair contemplation daughter domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas exploration: North-West Passage family father features fine arts and music flag, Union Flag flag, White Ensign flower food and drink fruit - non-specific furnishings glass government and politics history holding hands individuals: male interiors jug kitchen leisure and pastimes literary living room man, old map named individuals navigation chart objects painting patriotism people plants and flowers politics and society portraits print reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities religious and ceremonial sailor scientific and measuring sea seascapes and coasts sitting society table trading and commercial Trelawney, Edward vessels and containers window woman work and occupations