Graphite and watercolour on paper
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Rossetti and his Friends
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Rossetti Insistently Exhorted by George Meredith to Come Forth into Glorious Sun and Wind a Walk to Hendon and Beyond
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
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Rossetti Insistently Exhorted by George Meredith to Come Forth into the Glorious Sun and Wind for a Walk to Hendon and Beyond
support: 330 × 419 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01052</b>	[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>(xv) Inscr. ‘Rossetti insistently exhorted by George Meredith to come forth into the glorious sun and wind for a walk to Hendon and beyond.’ b.c., ‘Autumn 1862’, b.r. and ‘Max 1916’ b.l.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 13×16 1/4 (33×42).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 8); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (15); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 15); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, p.149.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.13 (in colour).</p>
<p>George Meredith (1828–1909), the novelist and poet, had a room in the Rossettis' and Swinburne's house in Cheyne Walk for a few months in 1862. His robustness was in strong contrast to their aestheticism.</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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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised artist, painter arts and entertainment author caricature curtain easel fine arts and music furnishings groups interiors literary man Meredith, George named groups named individuals objects paintbrush palette people poet portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Rossetti, Dante Gabriel social comment society studio woman work and occupations workspaces