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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
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Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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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 |
5 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
137 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 |
- |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 |
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English Drawings and Engravings |
299 |
Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest |
1935 - 1936 |
299 |
Vienna and Prague |
1936 - 1936 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
264(a) |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
- |
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 |
130 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
56 |
Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
p. 78. |
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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. 317. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
p. 9 |
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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. 86, p. 49, vol. 2, no. 112. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2C5. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
pp. 176-77. |
Provenance
Rossetti Sale, 1883 (lot 85c), Charles Fairfax Murray |
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