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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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Association Artist Organisation
Artist John Everett Millais -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
J. E. Millais
Signature bottom left Handwritten -
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
English Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition
75 Tate Gallery, London 1911 - 1911
 
Millais PRB, PRA
231 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1967 - 1967
231 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1967 - 1967
 
Praraffeliten
- Baden Baden Staatliche Kunsthalle 1973-11-23 - 1974-05-05
- Frankfurt , Stadelsche Kunstinstitut 1973-11-23 - 1974-05-05
 
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
 
John Keats
224a Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Wordsworth Trust) 1995-07-14 - 1995-09-30
224a British Library 1995-10 - 1995-12
 
Millais
11 Tate Britain, London 2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13
 

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.
 
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.
 
Millais, PRB, PRA
Mary Bennett 1967 Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool p. 73.
 
John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman 2004 Lund Humphries, Aldershot B16
 
Millais
Alison Smith, Heather Birchall, Jason Rosenfeld 2007 Tate Publishing, London cat. no. 11 / p. 36.

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John Keats Character created by

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