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This is a photographic print of a pen and ink with pencil drawing of 1868 in the Hugh Lane Art Gallery, Dublin. It is an alternative and less controversial version of an earlier drawing now in the Victoria & Albert Museum. This photographic copy was owned by the Estonian poet and aesthete Eric, Count Stenbock (See Colin Cruise).

  • Presented by Alan Green, 1981
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Simeon Solomon -
Photographer Frederick Hollyer -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
To Lily, Isabel and Lucy from Stanislaus Eric Stenbock(ink) / Qui Habet Sponsam Sponsvs Est: Amicvs Avtem Sponsi Qui Stat Et Avd ( )t Evm Gavdio Gavdet Propter Vocem/ Sponsi (scroll) / SS to WP/ June 1868 (lower right).
Dedication below image Handwritten - ink
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
112 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Love Revealed Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
Colin Cruise 2005 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery in association with Merrell Publishers Ltd. Cat. 112, p.155

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