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Fanny Cornforth reached her zenith as Rossetti's model in the oil painting The Blue Bower of 1865, now at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham. By 1867 Rossetti's eyesight was deteriorating and he began to resort to using chalks. This may explain the choice of medium and flattering soft focus on the model (who would have been in her mid thirties by this date).
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
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Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
[monogram] 1868 |
Monogram |
middle centre |
Handwritten |
- |
Chalk |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
55 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
55 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
55 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
89 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
89 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
89 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
89 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
89 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
89 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s |
37 |
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
2000-10-27 - 2001-01-14 |
37 |
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
2001-02-11 - 2001-05-06 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
125 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 |
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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. 366. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Letters to Fanny Cornforth |
Paull Franklin Baum |
1940 |
John Hopkins Press, Baltimore |
frontispiece. |
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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. 304, p. 163. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3A2. |
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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. 264. |
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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s |
Paul Spencer-Longhurst |
2000 |
Scala Publishers, London |
no. 37 |
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Sotheby's sale, 13 June 2002 |
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2002 |
Sotheby's, London |
no. 24 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
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2009 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
cat.125, p.207; fig.47 |
Provenance
Lord Battersea; Charles Fairfax Murray. |
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