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This is one of several preliminary drawings in which Rossetti developed the composition of his mural painting for the Oxford Union. It depicts Sir Launcelot asleep and dreaming of Queen Guenevere. The Pre-Raphaelite artists involved in the Oxford Union scheme used each other as models - a note on the reverse of this sheet, in Charles Fairfax Murray's hand, records that the figure of Launcelot was done from Burne-Jones. It is a rare image of the young and unbearded Burne-Jones, who was then twenty-three,and quite feasible Jane Morris as the model for Guinevere.
- Purchased from Charles Fairfax Murray and presented by Subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
stDant |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
G (Gabriel) / Figure of Sir Launcelot for Oxford / Union. Studied I think from Burne Jones / Note by Wm. M Rossetti. / The figure of Launcelot was in fact done from Burne Jones, ''he used me when he could get no one else'' he told me in reply to my question / C F Murray |
Notes |
reverse centre |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
59 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
157 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
227c |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Some Famous Pre-Raphaelites |
- |
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield |
1952 - 1952 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
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Cambridge Arts Council Gallery |
1953-05-16 - 1953-10-24 |
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Norwich Assembly Rooms |
- - - |
- |
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
- - - |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
135 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
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Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-98 |
368 |
Hayward Gallery, London |
1975-11-05 - 1976-01-04 |
368 |
Southampton Art Gallery |
1976-01-24 - 1976-02-22 |
368 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1976-03-10 - 1976-04-11 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
59 |
Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
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William Morris and Kelmscott |
4 |
West Surrey College, Farnham |
1981-11 - 1981-12 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
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Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
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Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
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May, 1894 |
The Portfolio |
p. 47. |
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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.319. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
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1953 |
Arts Council of Great Britain |
p. 19 |
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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, no. 93B, p. 5, vol. 2, pl. 119. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1C8. |
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Christie's sale catalogue, 28 November 2000 |
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2000 |
Christie's, London |
pp. 32-33. |
Provenance
William Michael Rossetti; Charles Fairfax Murray; acquired by City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1903. |
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