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A design for an illustration to Edward Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems, published in 1857. The intense overall handing of a naturalistic composition may well have been influenced by Durer, who was considered by Ruskin in his lectures at the working mens college. St Cecilia is thought to have been based on Elizabeth Siddal.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
monogram
Monogram bottom right Handwritten - Ink
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
5 Tate Gallery, London 1911-12 - 1912-03
 
Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
137 Tate Gallery, London 1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29
 
Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
1289 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10
 
English Drawings and Engravings
297 Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest 1935 - 1936
297 Vienna and Prague 1936 - 1936
 
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
265 City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
- Cambridge Arts Council Gallery 1953-05-16 - 1953-10-24
- Norwich Assembly Rooms - - -
- Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne - - -
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
126 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1973 - 1973
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
54 Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery 1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20
 
Rossetti and the Double Work of Art
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1976-09 - 1976-11
 
William Morris and Kelmscott
15 West Surrey College, Farnham 1981-11 - 1981-12
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
38 Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
38 Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
98 Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo 1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14
98 Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya 1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09
98 Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume 1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14
 
Tennyson 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration
242 Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) 1992-03-01 - 1992-06-30
242 Usher Gallery, Lincoln 1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
- Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
79 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
79 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06
 
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
53 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15
53 Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 2006-03-09 - 2006-06-18
53 Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art 2006-09-11 - 2006-11-26
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators
G S Layard 1894 Elliot Stock, London pp. 51, 58.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 316
 
Edward Moxon: Publisher of Poets
Harold G Merriam 1939 Columbia University Press p. 1834.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
1947 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London p. 9
 
Pre-Raphaelite Painters
John Gere, Robin Ironside 1948 Phaidon, London p. 33.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
1953 Arts Council of Great Britain p. 18
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees 1971 Oxford University Press, London vol. 1, no. 83, p. 48; vol. 2, pl. 108.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 2C3.
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz 2003 Waanders, Zwolle pp. 176-77.
 
'Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Liverpool and Amsterdam'
Alastair Grieve January 2004 The Burlington Magazine pp. 42-44 (p. 43).
 
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
Colin Cruise 2005 Merrell, London p. 102.

Provenance

Rossetti Sale 1883 (lot 85a) Bought Charles Fairfax Murray.

Associated people

Name Type
Lord Alfred Tennyson Author

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