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This is a design for a wood-engraving to illustrate Christina Rossetti's poem 'If' published in 'The Argosy,' 1866 (vo. 1, no. 4, March, p. 336):If he would come to-day, today, Oh what a day to-day would be! Sandys gratefully accepted the opportunities offered by the burgeoning demand for book and magazine illustration in the 1860s, and quickly established a reputation that lasted throughout the century. The poem reflects on the theme of melancholy love and was later re-titled 'Hope against Hope'. In this illustration Sandys sets a lone female figure against a landscape, brooding on the absence of her lover. Another drawing of this subject was acquired by the Huntington Art Gallery, California, in 1974 (see the Huntington Annual Report, 1973-74, p. 30).
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Frederick Sandys |
- |
Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Winter exhibition |
283a |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1905 - 1905 |
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Exposition retrospective de peinture anglaise (XVIIIe-XIXe) (Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting) |
160 |
Musée Moderne, Brussels |
1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01 |
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Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860 |
1236 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10 |
|
English Drawings and Engravings |
311 |
Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest |
1935 - - |
311 |
Vienna |
- - - |
311 |
Prague |
- - 1936 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
64 |
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London |
1947-09 - 1947-09 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
73 |
Cambridge Arts Council Gallery |
1953-05-16 - 1953 |
73 |
Norwich Assembly Rooms |
1953 - 1953 |
73 |
Bristol City Art Gallery |
1953 - 1953 |
73 |
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
- - 1953-10-24 |
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Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
65 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - 1955-08 |
65 |
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
1955-10 - 1955-10 |
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Praraffaeliten |
146 |
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden |
1973-11-23 - 1974 |
146 |
Stadelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
1974 - 1974-05-05 |
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Frederick Sandys 1829-1904 |
276 |
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery |
1974-05-07 - 1974-07-14 |
276 |
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield |
1974 - 1974 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
73 |
Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
|
The Pre-Raphaelites |
241 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Women |
34 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02 |
34 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
83 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
83 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
83 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
83 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
83 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
83 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s |
- |
Barber Institute of Arts, University of Birmingham |
2000 - 2000 |
|
Frederick Sandys |
no cat. no |
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery |
2001-10 - 2002-01 |
|
The Pre-Raphaelites |
155 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
From Hogarth to Keene |
Henry Reitlinger |
1938 |
Metheun, London |
pl. 45. |
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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.382 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
|
1947 |
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London |
p. 15 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours |
|
1953 |
Arts Council of Great Britain, London |
p. 22 |
|
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
|
1955 |
Arts Council of Great Britain, Welsh Office, Cardiff |
p. 21 |
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Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, Sotheby's, 10 April 1973 |
|
1973 |
Sotheby's, London |
no. 299. |
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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. 252. |
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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s |
Paul Spencer-Longhurst |
2000 |
Scala Publishers, London |
no. 41 |
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Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné |
Betty Elzea |
2001 |
Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service |
no. 2.B.87, p. 228. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
|
2009 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
cat.155, p.219 |
Provenance
James Anderson Rose, sold at his death at Christie's 5 May 1891 (part of lot 90) , bought by Charles Fairfax Murray for £6.6.0. |
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