Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
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A Momentary Vision that Once Befell Young Millais
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
caricature
chair
children
clothing and personal items
complacency
dress: fantasy/fancy
easel
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
fancy dress / role play
fine arts and music
furnishings
girl
hat
hat, cap
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
man, old
Millais, John Everett
mysticism
named groups
named individuals
objects
paintbrush
painting
palette
people
pipe
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Ramage, Edie
recoiling
recreational activities
religion and belief
shock
sitting
smoking
social comment
society
studio
vision
work and occupations
workspaces
paper unique graphite watercolour
A Momentary Vision that Once Befell Young Millais
support: 324 × 432 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-a-momentary-vision-that-once-befell-young-millais-a01044" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01044</span></a>	[from] ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS (TWENTY-THREE DRAWINGS) 1916–17 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-d-g-rossetti-precociously-manifesting-that-queer-indifference-to-politics-a01038" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01038</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-the-name-of-dante-gabriel-rossetti-is-heard-for-the-first-time-in-the-western-a01060" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01060</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Mrs Charles Hunter; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries; from whom purchased by Sir Hugh Walpole 1921.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.146–50.</p>
<p>A series of twenty-three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>, variously dated 1916 and 1917. Fifteen were lent by Mrs Charles Hunter to the <i>Modern Loan Exhibition</i>, Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98); the complete series was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (1), in the order in which they are given here, again as <i>Rossetti and his Friends</i>. They were published in book form by Heinemann in 1922 as <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, possibly an allusion to Rossetti's <i>Dante and His Circle</i>, the second edition of his translations from the early Italian poets, published in 1874. The complete series of drawings was further exhibited in <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>Paintings</span></a> and Drawings of the 1860 Period</i>, Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336), and was on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938. For further details, see below (artists represented in the collection will be fully discussed in the appropriate section of the catalogue).</p>
<p>(vii) Inscr. ‘A momentary Vision that once befell young Millais.’ t.c. and ‘Max 1916’ t.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 12 1/2×17 (32·5×43·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (7); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 7); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.146–7, repr. facing p.48.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.3 (in colour).</p>
<p>Millais, shown painting his early and unsuccessful ‘Ferdinand and Ariel’ in 1849, sees himself as an old man dandling the subject of the popular ‘Cherry Ripe’ of 1879 on his knee.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter arts and entertainment caricature chair children clothing and personal items complacency dress: fantasy/fancy easel emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fancy dress / role play fine arts and music furnishings girl hat hat, cap interiors leisure and pastimes man man, old Millais, John Everett mysticism named groups named individuals objects paintbrush painting palette people pipe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Ramage, Edie recoiling recreational activities religion and belief shock sitting smoking social comment society studio vision work and occupations workspaces