The Baby House
Medium
Etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.5 × 18.4 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 28 × 38.5 cm (11 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129514
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Sir John Everett Millais was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a self-titled group of British artists who broke from the 19th-century art establishment and instead drew inspiration from art predating the Renaissance. In their work, they emphasized purity of form and direct observation of nature. Much of Millais’s later work, including this etching, departed from the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and dealt with the themes of domesticity and family life that were popul...