Millais’ Metapicture: “The North-West Passage” as Distillate of Arctic Voyaging from the Anglosphere
John Guille Millais reported in his 1899 biography of his famous father, John Everett Millais, that The North-West Passage (1874) was “perhaps the most popular of all Millais’ paintings at the time”. The picture’s adoptive subtitle—“It might be done, and England should to do it”, purportedly uttered...
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Yale University
2021-02-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-19/millais-metapicture |