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Elizabeth Siddal is the model for the figure of Rachel in Rossetti's watercolour 'Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah' (1855), now in the Tate. There she is seated by what appears to be a somewhat puzzling high chair that in the colour version translates into a high-walled well, with Rachel looking down at her reflection in a stream. The subject of this work was taken from Dante's 'Purgatorio', Canto XXVIII.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
223 |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Dante Alighieri |
- |
Rome |
1965-09 - 1965 |
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- |
- |
Van Gogh Museum |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
- |
USA |
1995 - 1996 |
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Burne-Jones |
43 |
Mappin Art Gallery, Weston Park, Sheffield |
1971-10-23 - 1971-11-28 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
93 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
- |
Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
20 |
Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy |
1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 |
20 |
Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan |
1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
7 |
Ramsgate Art Gallery, Kent |
1988-04-09 - 1988-05-14 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
127 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
127 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
127 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal |
28 |
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
1991-03 - 1991-07 |
28 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
- - - |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
33 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
33 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
33 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
33 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
33 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
33 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
30 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
30 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
p. 67. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 342. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
p. 8 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol.1, 74A, p. 36; vol. 2, pl. 83. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2A4. |
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Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal |
Virginia Surtees |
1991 |
Scolar Press, Aldershot |
no. 28 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 142. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 154. |
Provenance
Rossetti Sale (Lot 133), £6.6s; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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