The Marriage Feast (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ), 1864, Wood engraving; proof on India paper, image: 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 in. (13.9 x 10.9 cm), Prints, After Sir John Everett Millais (British, Southampton 1829–1896 London), It took Millais seven years to design twenty New Testament parables for the Dalziel Brothers, and the resulting prints are pinnacles of illustration and wood engraving. The artist wrote to his engravers, 'I can do ordinary drawings as quickly as most men, but these designs can scarcely be regarded in the same light—each Parable I illustrate perhaps a dozen times before I fix and the ‘Hidden Treasures’ I have altered on the wood at least six times
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