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An illustration to Browning's poem 'The Laboratory', set in the eighteenth-century, this is Rossetti's first work in watercolour. An alchemist seated in his labortaory accepts jewellery from a woman in payment for poison to destroy her rival. The painting illustrates the lines 'In this devil's smithy Where is the poison to poison her prithee?''.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
2 |
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London |
1883 - 1883 |
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Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
54 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 |
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Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
95 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers |
55 |
Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sculpture, Chintzes, Wallpapers: An Exhibition Arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia |
65 |
Australian State Galleries (Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney) |
1962-03 - 1962-10 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
54 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
9 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
9 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
9 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
47 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
47 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
F G Stephens |
1894 |
Seely and Co. Ltd., London |
pp. 26-28. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
no. 14; pp. 34-45. |
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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. 41, p. 11; vol. 2, pl. 25. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1A2. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 162. |
Provenance
William Bell Scott; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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