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This is a tracing in reverse for a portrait of Elizabeth Siddal. The Latin title Regina Cordium is here translated as 'The Queen of Hearts', a tribute to Siddal at the time of her marriage to Rossetti. Rossetti made further versions of the painting, the original in Johannesburg Art Gallery.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
monogram 1860 / the Queen of / hearts |
Monogram |
top left |
Handwritten |
- |
Chalk |
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The Queen of Hearts |
Title |
top right |
Handwritten |
- |
Chalk |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
95 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
95 |
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.327. |
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The Paintings and drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol.1, no. 120B, pp. 75-76; vol. 2, pl. 188. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1E5. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 185. |
Provenance
Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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