Sir John Everett Millais - Summer Indolence

Summer Indolence (Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club)

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Sir John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Publisher
01-		Summer Indolence designed and etched by Sir John Everett Millais.	Original Etching	1861	Contains the artists name 'J.E. Millais' printed below the image to the lower right. Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets
02.-		The Widow's Mite etched by Charles Albert Waltner and designed by Sir John Everett Millais.	Original Etching	1880	Signed in the plate along the lower margin by both Charles Albert Waltner and Sir John Everett Millais. Published by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London

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The 'Junior Etching Club' (1857-1864)
The Junior Etching Club (1857-1864), was an institution that greatly contributed to the revival of Etching in England. Members included such prominent British artists as, Sir John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler, Sir Francis Powell, Henry Moore, Sir John Tenniel, Charles Samuel Keene, Joseph Clark, John Wright Oakes, Walter Severn, William Gale, Frederick Smallfield, Henry Clarence Whaite, Matthew James Lawless, Arthur James Lewis, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Rossiter, Vincent Bury, Lord G. Fitzgerald, J. R. Clayton, John Sleigh, and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald. The Junior Etching Club often published their members’ etchings and all of the above named artists contributed to their portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets, first published by Day & Son Limited, Lithographers & Publishers, London, 1862. In total, that publication contained forty-seven original etchings. The Junior Club also issued, another important publication in 1858, Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood published by E. Gambart & Co, London. It was also illustrated by its members and contained thirty-four plates.
#	Artist Last Name	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	Source
01.-	Barwell		Sea Beach - Norfolk Fisherman on the Look Out (The Fisherman) by Frederick Bacon Barwell	Frederick Bacon Barwell (London, c. 1831 - 1922)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
02.-	Clark		Hagar and Ishmael by Joseph Clark	Joseph Clark (Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1834 - Ramsgate, 1926)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
03.-	Gale		The May Wreath by William Gale	William Gale (London, 1823 - 1909)	Original Etching	1861	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
04.-	Keene		Scene of the Plague in London, 1665 by Charles Samuel Keene	Charles Samuel Keene (Hornsea, 1823 - London, 1891	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
05.-	Lawless		Sisters of Mercy by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
06.-	Lawless		The Little Shipwrights by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching & Aquatint	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
07.-	Lewis		The Cornfield by Arthur James Lewis	Arthur James Lewis 'Arthur Lewis' (London, 1824 - 1901)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
08.-	Millais		Summer Indolence by John Everett Millais	John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
09.-	Moore		Moonlight by Henry Moore	Henry Moore (York, 1831 - Margate, 1895)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
10.-	Oakes		The Last Gleam of Day by John Wright Oakes	John Wright Oakes (Middlewich (Cheshire), 1820 - London, 1887)	Original Drypoint & Etching	1859-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
11.-	Powell		The Rainbow by Sir Francis Powell	Sir Francis Powell (Pendleton, 1833 - Dunoon, Scotland, 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
12.-	Rossiter		St. Valentine's Day by Charles Rossiter	Charles Rossiter (London, 1827 - 1897)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
13.-	Severn		Nearing Home by Walter Severn	Walter Severn (Frascati (near Rome), 1830 - London, 1904)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
14.-	Smallfield		Supping on Horrors by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
15.-	Smallfield		The Shoe-Black by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
16.-	Smallfield		Winter Revels by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
17.-	Tenniel		War and Glory by Sir John Tenniel	Sir John Tenniel (London, 1820 - 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
18.-	Whaite		Study of a Head by Henry Clarence Whaite	Henry Clarence Whaite (Manchester, 1828 - Conwy Valley, Wales, 1912)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
19.-	Whistler		The Punt by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
20.-	Whistler		Sketching by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.

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Title:	Summer Indolence
Artist:	Millais, John Everett (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)
Date:	1861
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Day & Son, London
Edition:	Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862
Note:	Sir John Everett Millais: A major Victorian era painter and illustrator, Sir John Everett Millais began his formal art studies in London at the age of nine. His artistic gifts were so obvious that two years later he entered the Royal Academy Schools. J. E. Millais exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy in 1846, at the age of sixteen.
	Millais was both an early and instant success, but he tired of the vogue for the uninspiring history and genre paintings of the era and, in 1848, joined Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to form arguably the most influential British art movement of the nineteenth century -- the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
	Beginning around 1850, J. E. Millais devoted considerable energy to illustrating both books and weekly journals with his black and white line drawings. The latter 1850's and the decade of the 1860's marked the golden age of the British wood engraved book and Millais contributed illustrations to such classics as The Music Master (1855), Moxon's Tennyson (1857), Lays of the Holy Land (1858), Puck on Pegasus (1862), Parables of our Lord (1863), Touches of Nature by Eminent Artists (1866) and Gems of Poetry (1867). He was also the illustrator of five Anthony Trollope novels, dating from 1860 to 1882.
	John Everett Millais was a member of both the Old Etching Club (1838-1885) and the Junior Etching Club (1857-1864). He became a member of the Junior Etching Club in 1858 and in total contributed three etchings to this association, one of course being Summer Indolence. Other members of the Junior Etching Club included James McNeill Whistler, John Tenniel, Walter Severn, M. J. Lawless, Henry Moore and John Wright Oakes.
	Millais was not a prolific etcher. In total he created only eleven plates, the first made in 1850 and the final etching bearing the date of 1878. One regrets that he contributed so little to this demanding medium, but given his lifelong success as a leading painter and illustrator it is not surprising.
	Sir John Everett Millais was elected to the Royal Academy in 1863, created a Baronet in 1885, and was elected President of the Royal Academy in 1896. Institutions that house impressions of Summer Indolence include the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Liverpool University Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
	An original etching by the British artist, John Everett Millais, Summer Indolence was commissioned by the Junior Etching Club in 1861 and published the following year in the portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets. The etching was meant to serve as a general, visual theme or illustration for three poems - "Love in Idleness", by Laman Blanchard, "Summer Idleness", by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, and "Indolence", by an unknown author. The first stanza of the latter poem is quoted below: "Indolent! Indolent! - Yes , I am indolent: So is the grass growing tenderly, slowly, - So is the violet fragrant and lowly, Drinking in quietness, peace, and content;- So is the bird on the light branches swinging, Idly his carol of gratitude singing, Only on living and loving intent." Anonymous The first stanza of the poem "Love in Idleness", by Laman Blanchard is quoted below: "SOOTH 'twere a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do, But just to blow a shepherd's reed The silent seasons through; And just to drive a flock to feed,-- Sheep, quiet, fond, and few. Laman Blanchard The first part of the stanza of the poem "Summer Idleness", by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen is quoted below: On my hot brow diffuse, delicious breeze, The coolness of thy breath, whilst here I lie In the fresh shadow of the flickering trees, Gloom on the grass, but glory in the sky; And mix with idlesse a calm dignity Which finds a moral in the slightest thing--... *Jeremiah Holmes
	Day & Son, London: Some of the most ambitious and accomplished printmaking projects of the Victorian era were launched by the publishers, Day & Son. The firm began in the mid 1820's under the title of 'Day & Hague' and assumed its more familiar name 'Day & Son, London' in 1845. Sir John Everett MIllais's original etching, Summer Indolence was published by 'Day & Son, London' between 1861-62. Throughout their early years they printed and published works of art dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as, hunting scenes, genre depictions and topographical views.
Size:	4 1/2 X 7 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials

Buy Now	Price: $995.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published in Passages from Modern English Poets in 1862. The artist's name 'J. E. Millais', and the publisher's address and date, "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" appear in the lower margin of the plate. It also bears the plate's number "10" to the upper right corner of the margin above the image. This impression is in excellent condition throughout without a trace of foxing or staining. Summer Indolence stands as a superb, original example of the famous art of Sir John Everett Millais.
Subject:	Sir John Everett Millais, J. E. Millais, Summer Indolence, poems, Laman Blanchard, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, original etching, the Junior Etching Club, Passages from Modern English Poets, Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, illustrator of Anthony Trollope novels, British artists.
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