Design for Moxon's Tennyson - Saint Cecilia
1856 – 1857
Accession number: 1904P235
Brown pen and ink with black ink on paper.
Width: 82 mm
Height: 99 mm
Information
A design for an illustration to Edward Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems, published in 1857. The intense overall handing of a naturalistic composition may well have been influenced by Durer, who was considered by Ruskin in his lectures at the working mens college. St Cecilia is thought to have been based on Elizabeth Siddal.
- 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 | ||||
| Monogram | bottom right | Handwritten | - | Ink |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation | |||
| 5 | Tate Gallery, London | 1911-12 - 1912-03 | |
| Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period | |||
| 137 | Tate Gallery, London | 1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 | |
| Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 | |||
| 1289 | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 | |
| English Drawings and Engravings | |||
| 297 | Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest | 1935 - 1936 | |
| 297 | Vienna and Prague | 1936 - 1936 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |||
| 265 | City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham | 1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours | |||
| - | Cambridge Arts Council Gallery | 1953-05-16 - 1953-10-24 | |
| - | Norwich Assembly Rooms | - - - | |
| - | Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne | - - - | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet | |||
| 126 | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 1973 - 1973 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings | |||
| 54 | Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery | 1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 | |
| Rossetti and the Double Work of Art | |||
| - | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven | 1976-09 - 1976-11 | |
| William Morris and Kelmscott | |||
| 15 | West Surrey College, Farnham | 1981-11 - 1981-12 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| 38 | Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy | 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 | |
| 38 | Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan | 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| 98 | Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo | 1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 | |
| 98 | Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya | 1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 | |
| 98 | Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume | 1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 | |
| Tennyson 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration | |||
| 242 | Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) | 1992-03-01 - 1992-06-30 | |
| 242 | Usher Gallery, Lincoln | 1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| - | Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy | 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 | |
| - | Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan | 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| 79 | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | 2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 | |
| 79 | Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam | 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 | |
| Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 53 | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | 2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15 | |
| 53 | Museum Villa Stuck, Munich | 2006-03-09 - 2006-06-18 | |
| 53 | Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art | 2006-09-11 - 2006-11-26 | |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators | |||
| G S Layard | 1894 | Elliot Stock, London | pp. 51, 58. |
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby | p. 316 |
| Edward Moxon: Publisher of Poets | |||
| Harold G Merriam | 1939 | Columbia University Press | p. 1834. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings | |||
| 1947 | Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London | p. 9 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Painters | |||
| John Gere, Robin Ironside | 1948 | Phaidon, London | p. 33. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours | |||
| 1953 | Arts Council of Great Britain | p. 18 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 83, p. 48; vol. 2, pl. 108. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 2C3. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz | 2003 | Waanders, Zwolle | pp. 176-77. |
| 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Liverpool and Amsterdam' | |||
| Alastair Grieve | January 2004 | The Burlington Magazine | pp. 42-44 (p. 43). |
| Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| Colin Cruise | 2005 | Merrell, London | p. 102. |
Provenance
| Rossetti Sale 1883 (lot 85a) Bought Charles Fairfax Murray. |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Author |
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