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This is the finished study finally used for the oil painting, Found (Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington). Rossetti abandoned the painting for several years, taking an interest in it again only in 1859 on the offer of a commmission from the Newcastle collector James Leathart. The immediate results seem to have been a number of studies in pen and ink of the heads of the man and woman, including this sheet. The model is Fanny Cornforth; although she is known to have sat for Rossetti in early 1858 this would appear to be Rossetti's earliest surviving drawing of her.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
34	Tate Gallery, London	1911-12 - 1912-03

Retrospective Exhibition of British Art
148	Brussels	1929-11 - 1929-12

Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
196	Tate Gallery, London	1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
220(h)	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
-	Cambridge Arts Council Gallery	1953-05-16 - 1953
-	Norwich Assembly Rooms	1953 - 1953
-	Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne	1953 - 1953-10-24

Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
-	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	1955-07 - 1955-10
-	Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea	- - -

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

Winter Exhibition
-	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1962 - 1962

Primitives to Picasso
406	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1962 - 1962

La Peinture Romantique Anglaise et les Pre-Raphaelites
224	Petit Palais, Paris	1972-01-21 - 1972-04-16

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
82	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11
82	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	1973 - 1973

William Morris and Kelmscott
20	West Surrey College, Farnham	1981-11 - 1981-12

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
17	Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy	1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
17	Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan	1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13

Pre-Raphaelite Women
25	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02
25	Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery	1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
18	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo	1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14
18	Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya	1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09
18	Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume	1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14

Focus on Found
no. cat.	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1992-12-11 - 1993-02-07

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
35	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
35	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
35	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
35	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas	1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
35	High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia	1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
35	Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery	1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29

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. 315.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
	1947	Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London	p. 7.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 64N, p. 31; vol. 2, pl. 71.

The Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1. Found, 2. The Pre-Raphaelite Modern-Life Subject
A I Grieve	1976	Real World, Norwich	-

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 1B8.

'Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Found''
Judy Oberhausen	December, 1986	Delaware Art Museum Occasional Paper, no. 1	-

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	p. 146.

British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings
	1995	Leger Galleries, London	pp. 46-47.