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Executed less than a month after the wedding of Ford Madox Brown and Emma Hill on 5 April 1853, the drawing shows a rather apprehensive looking Emma with deep shadow cast by the lamp-light around her face. It remained in Brown's possession for the rest of his life. Rossetti, along with Thomas Seddon, had been a witness at the wedding. Emma came from a poor farming background, but had already modelled for her future husband's paintings 'The Last of England' and 'The Pretty Baa-Lambs'. Here Rossetti controls his use of the pen to capture a closely-observed appearance that is more about realism than flattery. He had been a pupil of Madox Brown in 1848.
- 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 |
monogram 1st May / 53 |
Monogram |
bottom centre |
Handwritten |
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Ink |
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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 |
56 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
206(i) |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
210 |
City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers |
99 |
Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England |
110 |
Ottawa National Gallery of Canada |
1965-03 - 1965-04 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sculpture, Chintzes, Wallpapers: An Exhibition Arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia |
75 |
Australian State Galleries (Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney) |
1962-03 - 1962-10 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
42 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
42 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
Feb.2004 - April.2004 |
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William Morris and Kelmscott |
ex. cat. |
West Surrey College, Farnham |
1981-11 - 1981-12 |
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- |
76 |
Museum of Art of the Socalist Republic of Romania, Bucharest |
1982-12-08 - 1983-01-02 |
76 |
National Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens |
1983-01-12 - 1983-03-06 |
76 |
National Gallery, Budapest |
1983-03-17 - 1983-05-08 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Women |
21 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02 |
21 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
122 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
122 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
122 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
19 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
19 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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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. 351. |
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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. 272, p. 158; vol. 2, pl. 395. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3A5. |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 116. |
Provenance
Ford Madox Brown; Brown Sale, at his house at 1 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park 29 May 1894 (part of lot 86). |
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