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This is a drawing later re-invented for the watercolour of 'Borgia' (1851-59), now in the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle.
- 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 |
Dante Rossetti / 1850 / ''To caper nimbly in a lady's chamber / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute'' |
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below image |
Handwritten |
1850 |
Ink |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Old Masters...deceased masters of the British School...works by Linnell and Rossetti |
342 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1883-01-01 - 1883-03-10 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
55 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Women |
17 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02 |
17 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
11 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
11 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
11 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
50 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
50 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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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. 18, p. 38. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 312. |
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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. 47, p. 15; vol. 2, pl. 36. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1A10. |
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The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing |
J B Bullen |
1994 |
Clarendon Press, Oxford |
pp. 256-57. |
Provenance
Given by the artist to George P Boyce on 8 April 1854; Boyce Sale, Christie's 1 July 1897 (lot 158), £20.9s.6d.; Charles Fairfax Murray. |
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