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Tennyson Reading Maud

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1855

Physical Description

Medium: pen and brown and black ink, and gray wash

Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 6 in.

Note: ‘“Maud” 1855’ is inscribed at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1855

Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.121); Tate 1923 (no.193); Brussels, Retrospective Exhibition of British Art , 1929 (no.147); R.A., British Art, 1934 (no.1250); Bucharest, Exhibition of British Graphic Art, 1935 (no.295); Birmingham 1947 (no.222); Whitechapel 1948 (no.102); Arts Council 1953 (no.50); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Victorian Artists in England, 1965 (no.114); Lyon, Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises 1700-1900, 1966 (no.91); R.A., 1973 (no.47)

Model: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Provenance

Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Catalog Number: 495'04

Archival History: ?William Sharp; Cosmo Monkhouse; Christie's sale November 25, 1901 (lot 113), £31; Fairfax Murray

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is DGR's second reproduction of his original sketch, as reprinted in Scribner's Magazine, vol. 21, no. 1 (January, 1897), p.120. The sketch is accompanied by a note from Cosmo Monkhouse describing the history of the original and this reproduction, on pages 125-6 of the same issue.

Bibliography

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 69-70.
Scribner's, vol. 21, no. 1 (January 1897), 120.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 199 (no. 526.R.2).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 420.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 420.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 69.
Scribner's, vol. 21, no. 1 (January 1897), 120.

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Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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