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This was a design for Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems (1857).

  • 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)
Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
137 Tate Gallery, London 1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29
 
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
5 Tate Gallery, London 1911-12 - 1912-03
 
Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
- Royal Academy of Arts, London 1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10
 
English Drawings and Engravings
298 Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest 1935 - 1936
298 Vienna and Prague 1936 - 1936
 
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
266 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 - - -
 
An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England
115 Ottawa National Gallery of Canada 1965-03 - 1965-04
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
128 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1973 - 1973
 
Rossetti and the Double Work of Art
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1976-09 - 1976-11
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
55 Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery 1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20
 
William Morris and Kelmscott
- West Surrey College 1981-11 - 1981-12
 
William Morris and the Middle Ages
103 Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester 1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
97 Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo 1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14
97 Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya 1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09
97 Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume 1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14
 
Tennyson 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration
243 Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) 1992-03-01 - 1992-06-30
243 Usher Gallery, Lincoln 1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30
243 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 27/02/04 - 06/06/04
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
81 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
81 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06
 

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. 78.
 
Thomas Woolner, R.A., His Life in Letters
Amy Woolner 1917 Chapman and Hall, London p. 128.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 316.
 
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. 84, p. 49, vol. 2, pl. 110.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 2C4.
 
William Morris and the Middle Ages
Jennifer Harris, Joanna Banham 1984 Manchester University Press, Manchester pp. 156-57
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz 2003 Waanders, Zwolle p. 177-78

Provenance

Rossetti sale, 1883 (lot 85b); Charles Fairfax Murray

Associated people

Name Type
Lord Alfred Tennyson Author
Edward Moxon Published by

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