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Design for a sofa which was made for Ford Madox Brown by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. The sofa was shown at the firm's stand at the International Exhibition of 1862. Rossetti was inventing furniture designs from as early as 1860 and then had a chance to make work with William Morris from 1861. It also appears in the background of Rossetti's drawing 'Joseph Accused Before Potiphar', also in Birmingham's collection.
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Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Designer |
William Morris |
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Inscriptions
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Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
bl: this design is lettered / so as to agree with/ the letters on the / stuff- WM / plane tree (ink)/tl: slice off/ front & back/ tm: matting at front & sides/ 2 x3 width flat/ 7 ft (pencil)/ tr: this only to project (pencil)// and with sections of drawing marked A-D. |
Notes |
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Handwritten |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
William Morris and the Middle Ages |
72 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
101 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
101 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
101 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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William Morris |
J.14 |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1996-05-08 - 1996-09-01 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
168 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-09-16 - 2004-01-18 |
168 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 365. |
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1 April 1965 |
Country Life |
p. 722. |
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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. 122A, p. 77. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3G8. |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
Jennifer Harris, Joanna Banham |
1984 |
Manchester University Press, Manchester |
pp. 136-38. |
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William Morris |
Linda Parry |
1996 |
Philip Wilson Publishers (in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum), London |
p. 170. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 227. |
Provenance
Philip Webb; Sir Sydney Cockerell; Given to Charles Fairfax Murray |
Associated people
Associated organisations
Name |
Type |
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co |
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