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

Emma looks quite different here to in Rossetti's wedding gift portrait (1904P447). Emma's appearance in the later drawing is in accordance with Rossetti's increasing move towards a more stylised image of femininity which came to preoccupy him in the 1860s and '70s, though there is the naturalistic detail of a small double chin in shadow. Her face appears over-exposed in the lamp light.

Purchased from Charles Fairfax Murray and presented by Subscribers, 1903.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
-	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
monogram/ 10 Sept/ 1856
-	bottom right	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(2)	Tate Gallery, London	1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
225	City Museum 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

Paintings of Poets, Poems of Painters
-	Art Society of St Gallen	1957 - 1957

Pre-Raphaelite Art: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sculpture, Chintzes, Wallpapers: An Exhibition Arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia
-	Australian State Galleries (Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney)	1962-03 - 1962-10

Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
43	Hong Kong Museum of Art	1984-10-20 - 1984-12-02

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. 273, p. 158.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 3A6.

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), Charles Fairfax Murray; acquired by City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1903.