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On the front a study from life for a design for an old ballad, 'The Ballad of Fair Annie', one of four sketches by Rossetti.On the back is a pencil sketch by Elizabeth Siddal for 'Jephtha's Daughter' (Judges XI). An Israelite commander who waged war against the Ammonites, Jephtha vowed to sacrifice to God 'whosoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me', should he return victorious: this proved to be his daughter, his only child. This work is the only drawing by Siddal in the Birmingham collection. This is from a group of drawings identified as studies for 'Jephtha's Daughter'.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Artist |
Elizabeth Siddal |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
This sketch / by Miss Siddal (inscribed by Charles Fairfax Murray) |
Notes |
reverse bottom right |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
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National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - 1955-10 |
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Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
- - - |
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Burne-Jones |
45 |
Mappin Art Gallery, Weston Park, Sheffield |
1971-10-23 - 1971-11-28 |
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Elizabeth Siddal 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist |
23 |
Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield |
1991-01-13 - 1991-04-13 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
43 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
43 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
43 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
43 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
43 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
43 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
From Hogarth to Keene |
Henry Reitlinger |
1938 |
Methuen, London |
pl. xxxv(a). |
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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. 358. |
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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. 68A, p. 32; vol. 2, pl. 55. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2C7. |
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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. 164. |
Provenance
Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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