Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Portrait of Jane Morris asleep on a Sofa

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1869 – 1871

Accession number: 1927P983

Pen and brown ink and ink wash, on paper.

Width: 151 mm

Height: 241 mm

Female seated on a couch, asleep, leaning right, her head resting on a cushion.

Information

Jane Morris was the ndaughter of an Oxford ostler. She had virtually no education when Rossetti and friends first met her when working on the Oxford Union murals in 1857. Whether lovers or not, as described by Christiopher Newall, this drawing speaks of the 'loving intimacy that existed' between sitter and artist.

Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
1257	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10

English Drawings and Engravings
296	Museum Toma Stelian, Bucharest (and tour to Vienna and Prague)	1935 - 1936
296	Vienna and Prague	- - 1936

Reality and Vision in Three centuries of English Drawing
41	Roland, Browse and Delbanco	1945-03 - 1945-04

Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musee de Birmingham
92	Musée de Lyon	1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20

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

Jane Morris
no cat. no.	William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow	1986-11-01 - 1987-03-01

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
128	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
128	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06

The Pre-Raphaelites
126	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24

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. 366.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
	1947	Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London	no. 7

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 389, p. 178.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 2G9.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz	2003	Waanders, Zwolle	p. 201.

The Pre-Raphaelites
	2009	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	cat.126, p.207