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At a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning on the evening of 27 September 1855, Rossetti made an impromptu sketch of Alfred Tennyson reading one of his favourite poems, 'Maud'. The drawing was offered to his hosts as a gift, but not until Rossetti had made at least two copies of it: one was done for Elizabeth Siddal, and this is the second. According to William Michael Rossetti, Tennyson was unaware that Rossetti was drawing his portrait.
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Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
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Date(s) |
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"Maud" / 1855 |
Title |
bottom right |
Handwritten |
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Brown ink |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
121 |
The Rossetti Gallery, 1a, Old Bond Street, London |
1883 - 1883 |
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Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period |
193 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29 |
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Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting |
147 |
Musée Moderne, Brussels |
1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01 |
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Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 |
1250 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 |
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English Drawings and Engravings |
295 |
Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest |
1935 - 1936 |
295 |
Bucharest, Vienna and Prague |
- - - |
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Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers |
103 |
Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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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 |
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Pictures from Birmingham by British Artists |
56 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1956 - 1956 |
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An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England |
114 |
Ottawa National Gallery of Canada |
1965-03 - 1965-04 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
47 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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English Portraits from Francis Bacon, the Philosopher, to Francis Bacon, the Painter |
143 |
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
1975-10-25 - 1975-12-14 |
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Whisper of the Muse: The World of Julia Margaret Cameron |
60 |
Colnaghi, London |
1990-03-14 - 1990-04-12 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
125 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
125 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
125 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Tennyson 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration |
214 |
Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) |
1992-03-01 - 1992-06-30 |
214 |
Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
1992-07-01 - 1992-09-30 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
36 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
36 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
36 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
36 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
36 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
36 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Fontane und die Bildende Kunst |
64 |
National Gallery, Berlin |
1998-09-01 - 1998-11-29 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
48 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
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January 1897 |
Scribner's Magazine |
p. 120. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
pp. 69-70. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters |
William Michael Rossetti |
1900 |
Hurst and Blackett, London |
no. 4. |
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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. 352 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Helen Rossetti Angeli |
1949 |
Hamilton, London |
p. 163 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
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1953 |
Arts Council of Great Britain |
p. 17 |
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Tennyson Today: A Symposium |
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7 August 1959 |
The Times Higher Educational Supplement |
p. 138. |
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'Rossetti's Impromptu Portraits of Tennyson Reading 'Maud'' |
William E Fredeman |
March 1963 |
The Burlington Magazine, no. 105 |
pp. 117-18. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle: a booklet illustrating, with descriptive notes, some of the most important works of the Pre-Raphaelites in the permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
Richard Ormond |
1965 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
- |
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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. 526 R2, p. 199; vol. 2, pl. 420. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3C2. |
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Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart |
Robert Bernard Martin |
1980 |
Clarendon Press Oxford; Faber and Faber, London |
opposite p. 308. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Portraits |
Andrea Rose |
1981 |
The Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil |
p. 95. |
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Whisper of the Muse: The World of Julia Margaret Cameron |
Jeremy Howard |
1990 |
Colnaghi, London |
pp. 66-67. |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 148. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
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2009 |
Nationalmuseum |
cat. 48, p.174; fig.92 |
Provenance
?William Sharp; Cosmo Monkhouse; Monkhouse Sale, Christie's 25 November 1991 (lot 113), £31; Charles Fairfax Murray. |
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