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According to the Museum's card record, inscribed in gold on the original frame were the lines 'How Sir Launcelot was espied in the Queen's Chamber, and how Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred came with twelve knights to slay him'.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
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Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
monogram oxford / 1857 |
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bottom right |
Handwritten |
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Ink |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
14 |
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London |
1883 - 1883 |
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Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
57 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
159 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 |
1245 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 |
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English Drawings and Engravings |
294 |
Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest |
1935 - 1936 |
294 |
Vienna and Prague |
1936 - 1936 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
227(f) |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
55 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - 1955-10 |
55 |
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
- - - |
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Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musee de Birmingham |
90 |
Musée de Lyon |
1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20 |
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Il Sacro e il Profano nell'arte dei Simbolisti |
36 |
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin |
1969-06 - 1969-08 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
141 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
109 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
9 |
Ramsgate Art Gallery (Kent County Council Libraries and Museums Service) |
1988-04-09 - 1988-05-14 |
|
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
128 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
128 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
128 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Victorian Painting from Turner to Whistler |
63 |
Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
1993-02-19 - 1993-05-02 |
63 |
Museo del Prado, Madrid |
1993-05-24 - 1993-07-01 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
42 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
42 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
42 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
42 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
42 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
42 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Theodore Fontane and the Visual Arts |
65 |
Alte Nationalegalerie, Berlin |
1998-09-01 - 1998-11-29 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
93 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
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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. 92. |
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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. 320. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
no. 7 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Painters |
John Gere, Robin Ironside |
1948 |
Phaidon, London |
p. 31. |
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English Watercolours, The Leger Galleries, November 8th, 1967 |
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1967 |
The Leger Galleries, London |
no. 49. |
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Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
John Robert Wahl, Oswald Doughty |
1967 |
Oxford University Press, Oxford |
p. 348. |
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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. 95, p. 54; vol. 2, pl. 127. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1C11. |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
Jennifer Harris, Joanna Banham |
1984 |
Manchester University Press, Manchester |
pp. 162-63. |
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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 |
pp. 162-63. |
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Fontane und die Bildende Kunst |
Claude Keisch, Moritz Wullen, Peter-Klaus Schusler |
1998 |
National Gallery, Berlin |
no. 65, p. 113. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
pp. 181-82. |
Provenance
T E Plint (in 1850) for £31; James Anderson Rose, Rose Sale, Christie's 5 May 1891 (lot 79), £13.13s; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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