Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Joseph accused Before Potiphar (Finished Composition)

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1860

Accession number: 1904P405

Black pen and ink on paper.

Width: 148 mm

Height: 150 mm

Male figure is shown to another figure by two guards. Female figure on the left watches.

Information

According to the Museum's records, on the back of the original frame in Mr. Rose's hand was written: 'I bought it of [sic] Rossetti out of a folio in his studio at 3 o'clock in the morning, and I gave him £15 for it'. The framed edge suggests that this was intended for an engraved illustration that was finally not used.

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] 1860
-	bottom left	Handwritten	-	Ink

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti
-	Burlington Fine Arts Club, London	1883 - 1883

Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
1	Tate Gallery, London	1911-12 - 1912-03

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
219	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973 - 1973

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
100	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo	1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
167	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
167	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
57	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15
57	Museum Villa Stuck, Munich	2006-03-09 - 2006-06-18
57	Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art	2006-09-11 - 2006-11-26

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	no. 96, p. 106.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby	p. 325.

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	1 April 1965	Country Life	p. 722.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 122, p. 77; vol. 2, pl. 194.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 1A5.

William Morris and the Middle Ages
Jennifer Harris, Joanna Banham	1984	Manchester University Press, Manchester	p. 138.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz	2003	Waanders, Zwolle	p. 226-27.

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
Colin Cruise	2005	Merrell, London	p. 104.