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Christopher Newall considers this to have been drawn out of doors. There is an effective use of light surrounding the central shadowed figure.

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

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
230 City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27
 
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
1955 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1955-07 - 1955-10
1955 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea - - -
 
Rossetti and the Double Work of Art
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1976-09 - 1976-11
 

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.321.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
1947 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London p. 8
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees 1971 Oxford University Press, London vol. 1, no. 109A, pp. 62-63; vol. 2. pl. 157.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 1D3.

Provenance

Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray

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