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In the Spring of 1871, Morris and Rossetti took joint tenancy of Kelmscott Manor, a sixteenth-century manor house by the Thames in Oxfordshire. Morris then went on an extended trip to Iceland, leaving his wife Jane and Rossetti to spend the summer there together. Several paintings of her were begun then, including the small oil 'Water Willow' (Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington), in which she holds branches of willow, a symbol of sorrow, with the house, church and river at Kelmscott in the background. In this study, Jane bears an even more soulful expression, and carries, with no little irony, a pansy - conventionally a token of fidelity and rembrance.
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Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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[monogram] 1871 |
Monogram |
top right |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
19 |
The Rossetti Gallery, 1a, Old Bond Street, London |
1883 - 1883 |
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146 |
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany |
1968-09-30 - 1968 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
338 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Women |
31 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-02-01 |
31 |
Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
53 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
95 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
95 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
95 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
95 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
95 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
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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 |
no. 245, p. 165. |
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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 |
Not listed |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy |
William Gaunt |
1942 |
Jonathon Cape, London |
p. 138. |
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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. 226A, pp. 127-28. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1G4. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Portraits |
Andrea Rose |
1981 |
The Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil |
p. 108. |
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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. 277. |
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Fanny Cornforth, Cornelius Cox, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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