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>
British Stock and Alien Inspiration 1849
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
anti-semitism
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
caricature
Disraeli, Benjamin
ethnicity
group
groups
groups
Hunt, William Holman
individuals: male
Jewish
man
Millais, John Everett
named groups
named individuals
people
politician - non-specific
politician, prime minister
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
public service
race
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
social comment
society
standing
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
2010-06-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-06-09
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Exhibition
British Stock and Alien Inspiration, 1849
support: 298 × 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-british-stock-and-alien-inspiration-1849-a01039" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01039</span></a>	[from] ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS (TWENTY-THREE DRAWINGS) 1916–17 [<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>-<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]
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<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>(ii) Inscr. ‘British Stock and Alien Inspiration. 1849.
<br/> 	 	First Country Member	} "Very clever, no doubt‘—’
<br/> 	 	Holman Hunt 	
<br/> 	 	Second County Member	} “Full of wonderful ideas, but—” 
<br/> 	 	John Millais	
<br/> 	 	First County Member	} “Not to be trusted for one moment.”’
<br/> 	 	Second County Member	
<br/> 	 	Holman Hunt	
<br/> 	 	John Millais	
<br/>		and ‘Max 1917’ b.c.	 
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 11 3/4×16 1/2 (30×42).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (2); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 2); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.1 (in colour).</p>
<p>On the left two county Members of Parliament are looking at Disraeli, while on the right Holman Hunt and Millais are looking at Rossetti.</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-22T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults anti-semitism artist, painter arts and entertainment caricature Disraeli, Benjamin ethnicity group groups groups Hunt, William Holman individuals: male Jewish man Millais, John Everett named groups named individuals people politician - non-specific politician, prime minister portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood public service race Rossetti, Dante Gabriel social comment society standing work and occupations