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In 1855-56 Rossetti made five designs for illustrations to Moxon's edition of Tennyson, published in 1857. Three of these designs of which this is one, he later carried out in watercolour. The subject is dervied from Tennyson's 'Sir Galahad', inspired by Malory. The four other subjects were 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Mariana in the South' and two from 'The Palace of Art'. This composition shows the strong influence of Burne-Jones. This watercolour illustrates Tennyson's Sir Galahad -'Between dank stems the forest glows, I hear a noise of hymns: Then by some secret shrine I ride; I hear a voice, but none are there; The stalls are void, the doors are wide, The tapers burning fair. Fair gleams the snowy altar-cloth, The silver vessels sparkle clean, The shrill bell rings, the censer swings, And solemn chants resound between.'
- Purchased through the Art Gallery Purchase Fund, 1892.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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bottom centre |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites |
159 |
Manchester City Art Gallery |
1911 - 1911 |
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Works by the English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
51 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
108 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1947 - 1947 |
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Loan Exhibition of Pictures from the Birmingham Art Gallery |
57 |
Agnew's, London |
1957 - 1957 |
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Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musee de Birmingham |
94 |
Musée de Lyon, France |
1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20 |
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Paintings and Drawings from the Leathart Collection |
60 |
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
1968-10-07 - 1968-11-16 |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
112 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Bankamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
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Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-03 |
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1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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British Watercolours from Birmingham 1750-1900 |
97 |
Tokyo Station Gallery, and Japan tour |
1991-06-01 - 1991-07-07 |
97 |
Bankside Gallery, London |
1992-01-22 - 1992-03-01 |
97 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1992 - 1992 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
50 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
50 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
50 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
50 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
50 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
50 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
84 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
84 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites |
119 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15 |
119 |
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
2006-03-09 - 2006-06-18 |
119 |
Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art |
2006-09-11 - 2006-11-26 |
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Literature
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Date(s) |
Publisher |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
p. 79. |
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The History of Modern Painting |
Richard Muther |
1907 |
J. M. Dent, London |
vol. 3, p. 166. |
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April 1899 |
The Artist |
vol.24, no.232, p. 185. |
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'A Victorian Parody' |
Leonee Osmond |
January 1967 |
Apollo |
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Victorian Painting |
Graham Reynolds |
1966 |
Studio Vista, London |
p. 72. |
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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. 115; vol. 2, pl. 171. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1A4 |
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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. 180. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
pp. 176-79. |
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Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites |
Colin Cruise |
2005 |
Merrell, London |
p. 160. |
Provenance
James Leathart; bought in 1892 by City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for £157.10. |
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