Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829–1896
- Medium
- Wood engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 140 × 108 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
- Reference
- A00803
Display caption
In this remarkable image, Millais illustrates the parable from Luke’s gospel in which a poor man is sent to request
three loaves of bread from a stranger. His persistence is rewarded, as the story describes: ‘And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you’. The parable illustrates the need for persistence or perseverance in prayer.
Gallery label, November 2004
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