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Surtees labels this as a study for the watercolour La Belle Dame Sans Merci but it seems more likely that it is a study for the 1864 watercolour The First Madness of Ophelia (Oldham Museum and Art Gallery).

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

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

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. 353.
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees 1971 Oxford University Press, London vol. 1, no. 76A, p. 39; vol. 2, pl. 242.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 1B12.

Provenance

Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray

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Name Type
William Shakespeare Author

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