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Details
- Other Title
- Ruby
- Date
- 1882
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 115.6 x 77.2 cm stretcher; 143.6 x 106.1 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., red paint "(monogram) 1882".
- Credit
- Purchased 1885
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 918
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sir John Everett Millais
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Pictures of children, Fine Art Society PLC, London, 1883–1883
Millais, Tate Britain, England, 26 Sep 2007–13 Jan 2008
Millais, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands, 15 Feb 2008–18 May 2008
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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A. Lys Baldry, Millais, London, 1899, 68, 158 (illus.).
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', pg. 36-56, Sydney, 1988, 44.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 128 (illus.), 129.
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 132. cat.no. 1494
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J.G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir J.E. Millais, 1899, 162. Model named as Miss Ruby Streatfield
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Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter's journal, 28 Apr 1983.
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Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith, Millais, 2007, 140, 141, 181 (colour illus.). cat.no.105
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M.H. Spielmann, Millais and his work with special reference to the exhibition of the Royal Academy 1898, Edinburgh, 1898, 146, 158 (illus.).
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Malcolm Warner, The Art Journal, 'Art notes', London, 1885, 226, 323.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Magazine of Art, London, Apr 1883, xxvii.
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Provenance
Fine Art Society PLC, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Fine Art Society 1885
