Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

This is a study for the painting 'Found', now in Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Its subject concerns poverty and prostitution in Victorian London. A man from the country recognises his former sweetheart in London where she had gone to seek her fortune but she turns away in shame. Rossetti worked on the painting intermittently between 1853 and 1881. The most significant change to the design in the final painting is the more dramatic pose of the woman as she turns her face to the wall.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
monogram / "I remember Thee; The kindness of thy youth, The love of thy betrothal." Jerem. II. 2. / Found
-	-	Handwritten	-	Ink

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
37	Tate Gallery, London	1911-12 - 1912-03

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
220(a)	City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham	1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
44	Cambridge Arts Council Gallery	1953-05-16 - 1953-10-24
44	Norwich Assembly Rooms	- - -
44	Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	- - -

Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
-	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	1955-07 - 1955-10
-	Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea	- - -

Pre-Raphaelite Art: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sculpture, Chintzes, Wallpapers: An Exhibition Arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia
78	Australian State Galleries (Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney)	1962-03 - 1962-10

Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of his Death
154	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	1970-06 - 1970-09

unknown
22	Welsh Arts Council	1971 - 1971

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
75	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973 - 1973
75	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	1973 - 1973

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
-	Portsmouth Art Gallery	1976-05-01 - 1976-05-29

William Morris and Kelmscott
19	West Surrey College, Farnham	1981-11 - 1981-12

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
13	Casa di Dante in Abruzzo, Pescara, Italy	1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
13	Academie? di Belle ?? di, Brera? Milan	1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13

Eva und die Zuhunft: Das Bild der Frau Seit der Franzosischen Revolution
73	Kunsthalle, Hamburg	1986-07 - 1986-09

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
-	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo	1990-09-22 - 1991-02-14
-	Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya	1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09
-	Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume	1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14

Focus on Found
no cat. no.	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1992-12-11 - 1993-02-07

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
34	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
34	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
34	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
34	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas	1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
34	High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia	1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
34	Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery	1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29

Fontane und die Bildende Kunst
63	National Gallery, Berlin	1998 - 1998

The Pre-Raphaelites
74	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24

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. 44.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby	p. 314.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
	1947	Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London	p. 8

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
	1953	Arts Council of Great Britain	p. 16

Apollo
	January 1967	-	p. 7.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 64A, p. 29; vol. 2. no. 66.

The Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1. Found 2. The Pre-Raphaelite Modern-Life Subject
A I Grieve	1976	Real World, Norwich	p. 3.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 1B4.

The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Jr. and Related Pre-Raphaelite Collections
Rowland Elzea	1978	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	pp. 94-99.

British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings
	1995	Leger Galleries, London	pp. 46-47.

The Pre-Raphaelites
	2009	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	cat.74, p.185