The Prince's Progress - Compositional Study for 'You should have wept her yesterday'
1865
Accession number: 1904P406
Pen and Indian ink with grey wash over pencil on paper, with drawn outline.
Width: 118 mm
Height: 172 mm
Information
A study for the frontispiece to Christina Rossetti's 'The Prince's Progress and Other Poems' (published by Macmillan and Co, 1866). This particular study illustrates the line 'You should have wept her yesterday'.See object numbers 1904P406-413 and 1904P418-431 for Rossetti's other designs for 'The Prince's Progress'.
- 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| 116 | Burlington Fine Arts Club, London | 1883 - 1883 | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet | |||
| 221 | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 | |
| Rossetti and the Double Work of Art | |||
| - | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven | 1976-09 - 1976-11 | |
| Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 | |||
| - | National Portrait Gallery, London | 1994-11-18 - 1995-02-12 | |
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 | pp. 117-18. |
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby | p. 332. |
| The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters | |||
| L M Packer | 1963 | Cambridge University Press | p. 54. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 185, p. 107; vol. 2, pl. 272. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 2C8. |
Provenance
| Charles Howell; James Anderson Rose; Rose Sale, Christie's 5 May 1891 (part of lot 81); Charles Fairfax Murray. |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Christina Rossetti | Author |
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