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This was the first drawing by Ford Madox Brown to enter the Birmingham collection in 1903. It was one of several gifts from Charles Fairfax Murray received whilst the Museum and Art Gallery was gathering subscriptions to buy the rest of his Pre-Raphaelite drawings collection. It is likely that Fairfax Murray bought the drawing from the sale of Brown's household effects following his death in 1893.Iza Duffus Hardy (1850-1922) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-1878), Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office, and his second wife Lady May Anne Hardy, novelist and travel writer (1824-1891). Iza followed her mother and was also an author publishing over thirty books and numerous short stories in the 1870s and 1880s. The Brown's and the Hardy's were, according to William Michael Rossetti, close friends and he notes that both Mrs Hardy and Iza were 'warmly attached to my wife,' Brown's first daughter Lucy. LM
- Presented by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1903.
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Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Ford Madox Brown |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
IZA HARDY / FMB 72 |
Monogram |
top left |
Handwritten |
1872 |
Black chalk |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown |
83 |
Grafton Galleries, London |
1897 - 1897 |
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Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites |
19 |
City of Manchester Art Gallery |
1911-09-14 - 1911-11-30 |
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Loan Collection of Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
28 |
National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Gallery, London) |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
51 |
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery |
2008-08-27 - 2008-12-14 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
A Catalogue of the House & Decorative Furniture, Works of Art, Books and Effects belonging to the distinguished Painter Ford Madox Brown, which will be sold by Mr T. G. Wharton (No. 1, St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park, 29-31 May 1894) |
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1894 |
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p.10 |
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Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown |
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1897 |
Grafton Galleries, London |
p. 37 |
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Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites |
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1911 |
City of Manchester Art Gallery |
p. 4 |
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Loan Collection of Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
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1911 |
National Gallery of British Art, London |
p. 10 |
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Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti |
William Michael Rossetti |
1906 |
Brown, Langham and Co. Ltd., London |
vol. 2, p. 491 |
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The Art of Ford Madox Brown |
Kenneth Bendiner |
1998 |
The Pennsylvania State University press, University Park, Pennsylvania |
p. 120; repr. fig. 63 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey |
2008 |
D. Giles Limited, London |
pp. 61, 68; repr. p. 24. |
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