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This is a study for the painting Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies him her Salutation of 1850 (Private Collection). The subect is taken from Vita Nuova. Elizabeth Siddal appears to be the model for Beatrice in this sketch.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Must be a prepatory sketch for the water-colour "Beatrice meeting Dante at a Wedding feast, denies him her Salutation", exhibited c. 1852. Wells, R.A. (W. M. R.) owns the water-colour. The figures in the water-colour are quite different, but no doubt this is a design for the subject. C. F. M. |
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reverse |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
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Date(s) |
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
197 |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Dante Alighieri |
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Rome |
1965 - 1965 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
6 |
Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy |
1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 |
6 |
Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan |
1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 |
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Literature
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Chronological List, with notes, of Paintings and Drawings from Dante by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Paget Jackson Toynbee |
1912 |
Fratelli Bocca, Turin |
p. 138. |
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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. 341. |
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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. 50A, p. 17; vol. 2, pl. 34. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2A1. |
Provenance
Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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