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>
Rossetti having just had a fresh consignment stunning fabrics  tries hard to prevail on his younger sister to accept  one
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
adults
arguing
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
brother
caricature
chair
clothing and personal items
domestic
drapery
family
fine arts and music
furnishings
groups
individuals: male
interiors
living room
man
named groups
named individuals
objects
people
picture
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Rossetti, Christina
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
social comment
society
woman
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
17 February 2015 – 7 June 2015
2015-06-07
17 February 2015 – 7 June 2015
2015-06-07
2015-02-17
Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village (Compton, UK)
http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk
2015-02-17
Fashion and Feminism: Aesthetic Dress in Victorian Portraiture
Loan-out
Rossetti, having just had a fresh consignment of ‘stunning’ fabrics ... tries hard to prevail on his younger sister to accept ... one
support: 343 × 286 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01050</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>(xiii) Inscr. 'Rossetti, having just had a fresh consignment of “stunning” fabrics from that new shop in Regent Street, tries hard to prevail on his younger sister to accept at any rate one of these and have a dress made of it from designs to be furnished by himself.</p>
<p> 	'<i>D.G.R.</i> “What <i>is</i> the use, Christina, of having a heart like a singing-bird and a water-shoot and all the rest of it, if you insist on getting yourself up like a pew-opener?”</p>
<p> 	‘<i>C.R.</i> (mildly) “Well, Gabriel, I don't know, I'm sure you yourself always dress very simply.”’ below.</p>
<p>and ‘Max 1917’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 13 1/2×11 1/4 (34·5×29).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (13); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 13); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Lit :</i>Lynch, 1921, pp.147–8.
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.12 (in colour).</p>
<p>
<br/><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: expressive adults arguing artist, painter arts and entertainment brother caricature chair clothing and personal items domestic drapery family fine arts and music furnishings groups individuals: male interiors living room man named groups named individuals objects people picture portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel social comment society woman work and occupations