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This work is very similar in design to a watercolour by Rossetti called 'The Heart of the Night', at the Tate (sometimes alternatively titled 'Mariana in the Moated Grange'), from 1862. The figure of Mariana is assumed to have been based upon Elizabeth Siddal.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
5 Tate Gallery, London 1911-12 - 1912-03
 
Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
137 Tate Gallery, London 1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29
 
Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
- Royal Academy of Arts, London 1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10
 
English Drawings and Engravings
299 Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest 1935 - 1936
299 Vienna and Prague 1936 - 1936
 
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
264(a) City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
- Cambridge Arts Council Gallery 1953-05-16 - 1953-10-24
- Norwich Assembly Rooms - - -
- Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne - - -
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
130 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
56 Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery 1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
39 Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
39 Accademica di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13
 
Tennyson 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration
244 Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) 1992-03-01 - 1992-06-30
244 Usher Gallery, Lincoln 1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
77 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
77 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06
 

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. 78.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 317.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
1947 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London p. 9
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees 1971 Oxford University Press, London vol. 1, no. 86, p. 49, vol. 2, no. 112.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 2C5.
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz 2003 Waanders, Zwolle pp. 176-77.

Provenance

Rossetti Sale, 1883 (lot 85c), Charles Fairfax Murray

Associated people

Name Type
Lord Alfred Tennyson Author
Edward Moxon Published by

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