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The subject illustrates Keats' poem 'Isabella' or 'The Pot of Basil', derived from a story by Boccaccio.One of five studies in Birmingham's collection for the painting 'Lorenzo and Isabella' in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1849.Goldman notes: 'It has been suggested that the central sketch caricatures Rossetti's drawing of 'A Parable of Love'. Also in the Birmingham collection.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
John Everett Millais |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
J. E. Millais |
Signature |
bottom left |
Handwritten |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
English Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition |
75 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911 - 1911 |
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Millais PRB, PRA |
231 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1967 - 1967 |
231 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1967 - 1967 |
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Praraffeliten |
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Baden Baden Staatliche Kunsthalle |
1973-11-23 - 1974-05-05 |
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Frankfurt , Stadelsche Kunstinstitut |
1973-11-23 - 1974-05-05 |
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British Nineteenth Century Drawings and Watercolours (from the Birmingham collection) |
58 |
Museum of Art of the Socialist Republic of Romania |
1982-12-08 - 1983-01-02 |
58 |
National Gallery, Athens |
1983-01-12 - 1983-03-06 |
58 |
National Gallery, Budapest |
1983-03-17 - 1983-05-08 |
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John Keats |
224a |
Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) |
1995-07-14 - 1995-09-30 |
224a |
British Library |
1995-10 - 1995-12 |
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Millais |
11 |
Tate Britain, London |
2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
p. 102, fig. 27. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby |
p. 264. |
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Millais, PRB, PRA |
Mary Bennett |
1967 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
p. 73. |
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John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
Paul Goldman |
2004 |
Lund Humphries, Aldershot |
B16 |
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Millais |
Alison Smith, Heather Birchall, Jason Rosenfeld |
2007 |
Tate Publishing, London |
cat. no. 11 / p. 36. |
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