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>
Name Dante Gabriel Rossetti is Heard First Time in Western States America
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
abstract concepts
actions: expressive
adults
aestheticism - lily
American
architecture
audience
caricature
countries and continents
features
fine arts and music
flag, USA / Stars and Stripes
groups
hall
individuals: male
interiors
lily
Lincoln, Abraham
man
named groups
named individuals
nationality
objects
people
picture
places
plants and flowers
platform / stage
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
public and municipal
religious and ceremonial
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
talking
USA
Wilde, Oscar
paper unique graphite watercolour
27 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
2017-01-15
27 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
2017-01-15
2016-09-27
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2016-09-27
Oscar Wilde: L'impertinent absolu
Loan-out
The Name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is Heard for the First Time in the Western States of America
support: 400 × 368 mm
Frame: 725 × 550 × 27 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01060</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>(xxiii) Inscr. ‘The name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is heard for the first time in the Western States of America. Time: 1882. Lecturer: Mr. Oscar Wilde.’ t.l. and ‘Max 1916’ c.l.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 15 3/4×14 1/2 (39×36·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 15); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (23); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 23); 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.22 (in colour); Max Beerbohm, <i>Poet's Corner</i>, 1943 ed., pl.4 (in colour).</p>
<p>Wilde toured America in 1882, giving over two hundred lectures on ‘Aesthetic Philosophy’.</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
abstract concepts actions: expressive adults aestheticism - lily American architecture audience caricature countries and continents features fine arts and music flag, USA / Stars and Stripes groups hall individuals: male interiors lily Lincoln, Abraham man named groups named individuals nationality objects people picture places plants and flowers platform / stage portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood public and municipal religious and ceremonial social comment society symbols and personifications talking USA Wilde, Oscar