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Sir John Everett Millais

Design for a Gothic Arch with the Artist and Effie Ruskin Embracing (recto); Design for a Gothic Arch with Effie as an Angel (verso)

1853
Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory paper
23.2 × 11.5 cm (9.1 × 4.5 in)

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