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

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.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
monogram 1st May / 53
Monogram	bottom centre	Handwritten	-	Ink

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

Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
206(i)	Tate Gallery, London	1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
210	City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham	1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27

Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
99	Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth	1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07

An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England
110	Ottawa National Gallery of Canada	1965-03 - 1965-04

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
42	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973 - 1973
42	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	Feb.2004 - April.2004

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 3A5.

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	p. 116.