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There are fifteen surviving figure studies for 'Found', Rossetti's only work on a contemporary 'moral' subject. Birmingham's collection has two drawings of the woman's head (one of them drawn from Fanny Cornforth) and three of the man's. This particular study is possibly drawn from Frederic George Stephens (1828-1907), one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- 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 |
Study for head of the / man in Found / c.1855? |
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reverse |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
42 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
81 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
16 |
Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy |
1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 |
16 |
Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan |
1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 |
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Focus on Found |
no cat. |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1992-12-11 - 1993-02-07 |
no cat. |
Torre de Passeri, Italy |
Sep.1984 - Oct.1984 |
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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. 315. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
p. 8 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol. 1, no. 64K, p. 30; vol. 2, pl. 75. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1B11. |
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British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings |
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1995 |
Leger Galleries, London |
pp. 46-47. |
Provenance
William Michael Rossetti, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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