Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-max-beerbohm-722" aria-label="More by Sir Max Beerbohm" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Max Beerbohm</a>
DG Rossetti Precociously Manifesting  that Queer Indifference to Politics 
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
art and craft
boy
caricature
chair
children
domestic
drawing
drink, wine
drinking
eating and drinking
fireplace
food and drink
furnishings
gesticulating
group
groups
groups
heating and lighting
interiors
leisure and pastimes
letter
living room
man
mirror
named groups
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
reading
reading, writing, printed matter
reclining
recreational activities
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Gabriele
social comment
society
table
talking
paper unique graphite watercolour
D.G. Rossetti Precociously Manifesting ... that Queer Indifference to Politics ...
support: 273 × 419 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-d-g-rossetti-precociously-manifesting-that-queer-indifference-to-politics-a01038" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01038</span></a>	[from] ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS (TWENTY-THREE DRAWINGS) 1916–17 [<span>A01038</span>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-the-name-of-dante-gabriel-rossetti-is-heard-for-the-first-time-in-the-western-a01060" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01060</span></a>; complete]
<br/> 
<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Mrs Charles Hunter; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries; from whom purchased by Sir Hugh Walpole 1921.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.146–50.</p>
<p>A series of twenty-three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>, variously dated 1916 and 1917. Fifteen were lent by Mrs Charles Hunter to the <i>Modern Loan Exhibition</i>, Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98); the complete series was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (1), in the order in which they are given here, again as <i>Rossetti and his Friends</i>. They were published in book form by Heinemann in 1922 as <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, possibly an allusion to Rossetti's <i>Dante and His Circle</i>, the second edition of his translations from the early Italian poets, published in 1874. The complete series of drawings was further exhibited in <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>Paintings</span></a> and Drawings of the 1860 Period</i>, Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336), and was on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938. For further details, see below (artists represented in the collection will be fully discussed in the appropriate section of the catalogue).</p>
<p>(i) Inscr. ‘D. G. Rossetti, precociously manifesting, among the exiled patriots who frequented his father's house in Charlotte Street, that queer indifference to politics which marked him in his prime and his decline.’ below, and ‘Max’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 10 3/4×16 1/2 (27·5×41·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (1); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 1); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, frontispiece (in colour).
<br/></p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-09-22T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults art and craft boy caricature chair children domestic drawing drinking drink, wine eating and drinking fireplace food and drink furnishings gesticulating group groups groups heating and lighting interiors leisure and pastimes letter living room man mirror named groups named individuals objects people portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood reading reading, writing, printed matter reclining recreational activities Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gabriele social comment society table talking