Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
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Blue China
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
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paper unique graphite watercolour
Blue China
support: 337 × 273 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01047</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>(x) Inscr. ‘Blue China.’ and ‘Max 1916’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 13 1/2×10 3/4 (33·5×27·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 5); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (10); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 10); 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.8 (in colour); Max Beerbohm, <i>Poet's Corner</i>, 1943 ed., pl.1 (in colour).</p>
<p>Whistler and Carlyle.</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
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adults American artist, painter artist, printmaker arts and entertainment caricature Carlyle, Thomas ceramics domestic fine arts and music individuals: male interior - non-specific interiors literary man named groups named individuals nationality objects people picture poet portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood social comment society Whistler, James Abbot McNeill work and occupations