Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
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Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
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Rossetti in his Worldlier Days Leaving Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
astronomy
building - non-specific
cane / walking stick
caricature
cigar
clothing and personal items
diseases and conditions
individuals: male
journalist
leisure and pastimes
linking arms
literary
man
moon
named groups
named individuals
night
obesity
objects
people
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
recreational activities
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Sala, George Augustus
smoking
social comment
society
street
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
walking
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
Rossetti in his Worldlier Days Leaving the Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala
support: 375 × 257 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01051</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>(xiv) Inscr. 'Rossetti, in his worldlier days (circa 1866–1868) leaving the Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala.</p>
<p> 	‘<i>Mr. Sala:</i> “You and I, Rossetti, we like and we understand each other. Bohemians, both of us, to the core, we take the world as we find it; and as for our work, <i>I</i> give Mr. Levy what <i>he</i> wants and <i>you</i> give Mr. Rae and Mr. Leyland what <i>they</i> want, and glad we are to pocket the cash and foregather at the Arundel.”’</p>
<p> 	and ‘[The monologue is apocryphal but not so the acquaintance - M.B.]’ below
<br/> 	and ‘Max 1916’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 14 3/4×10 1/2 (37·5×25·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 13); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (14); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 14); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.16 (in colour).</p>
<p>Sala (1828–96) was a successful journalist, particularly for the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, of which J. M. Levy was proprietor. George Rae and F. R. Leyland were two of Rossetti's chief patrons.</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults architecture artist, painter arts and entertainment astronomy building - non-specific cane / walking stick caricature cigar clothing and personal items diseases and conditions individuals: male journalist leisure and pastimes linking arms literary man moon named groups named individuals night obesity objects people portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood recreational activities Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Sala, George Augustus smoking social comment society street times of the day townscapes / man-made features walking work and occupations