Graphite and watercolour on paper
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Rossetti and his Friends
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Riverside Scene Algernon Swinburne Takes his Great New Friend Gosse to See Gabriel Rossetti
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
adults
animals: birds
architecture
author
boat - non-specific
boat, barge
book - non-specific
caricature
chimney
clothing and personal items
England
Gosse, Edmund
holding hands
individuals: male
industrial
literary
London - non-specific
man
named groups
named individuals
objects
people
places
poet
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
railing
reading, writing, printed matter
River Thames
seagull
social comment
society
spectacles
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
UK countries and regions
UK London
UK natural features
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
Riverside Scene. Algernon Swinburne Takes his Great New Friend Gosse to See Gabriel Rossetti
support: 305 × 298 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01054</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>(xvii) Inscr. ‘Riverside Scene. Algernon Swinburne taking his great new friend Gosse to see Gabriel Rossetti.’ b.l. and ‘Max 1916’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 12×11 3/4 (30·5×29·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 11); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (17); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 17); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Lynch, 1921, p.97, repr. facing p.96.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.17 (in colour).</p>
<p>(Sir) Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was later to write a critical biography of Swinburne.</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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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive adults animals: birds architecture author boat, barge boat - non-specific book - non-specific caricature chimney clothing and personal items England Gosse, Edmund holding hands individuals: male industrial literary London - non-specific man named groups named individuals objects people places poet portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood railing reading, writing, printed matter River Thames seagull social comment society spectacles Swinburne, Algernon Charles townscapes / man-made features transport: water UK countries and regions UK London UK natural features work and occupations