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The subject illustrates Keats' poem 'Isabella' or 'The Pot of Basil', derived from a story by Boccaccio.One of five studies in Birmingham's collection for the painting 'Lorenzo and Isabella' in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1849.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
John Everett Millais |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
J. E. Millais / 1849 |
Signature and date |
bottom right |
Handwritten |
1849 |
Ink |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
English Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition |
69 |
Tate Gallery |
1910-01-01 - 1910-01-01 |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
232 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05 |
232 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
- |
Portsmouth Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
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Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers |
94 |
Bournemouth Art Gallery |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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Artists of Victoria's England |
37 |
Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida |
1965-02-02 - 1965-03-14 |
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John Keats |
224b |
Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) |
1995-07-14 - 1995-09-30 |
224b |
British Library |
- - 1995-12 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
p. 264. |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
Mary Bennett |
1967 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
p. 73. |
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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
Paul Goldman |
2004 |
Lund Humphries, Aldershot |
B19 |
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