Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
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Woolner at Farringford 1857
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
artist, sculptor
arts and entertainment
beard
body
caricature
domestic
England
England, South East
England, Southern
Farringford
features
fine arts and music
groups
individuals: male
interiors
Isle of Wight
legs crossed
literary
living room
man
named groups
named individuals
objects
people
picture
places
poet
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
sculpture
Sellwood, Emily
sitting
social comment
society
talking
Tennyson, Alfred
Tennyson, Emily
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
window
woman
Woolner, Thomas
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
Woolner at Farringford, 1857
support: 330 × 260 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01046</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>(ix) Inscr.‘Woolner at Farringford, 1857.’ b.l., 
<br/>‘<i>Mrs. Tennyson</i>: “You know, Mr. Woolner, I'm the most un-meddlesome of women, but - When (I'm only asking) <i>when</i> do you begin modelling his halo?”’ b.c.
<br/>and ‘Max 1917’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 13×10 1/8 (33×26).
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (9); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 9); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, p.148.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.9 (in colour).</p>
<p>Thomas Woolner (1825–92), the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a> and poet, one of the original members of the <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/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelite</span></a> Brotherhood; his departure for Australia in 1852 (he returned in 1854) inspired Ford Madox Brown's ‘The Last of England’ (Birmingham City Art Gallery). His bust of Tennyson is now in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.</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 actions: postures and motions adults architecture artist, sculptor arts and entertainment beard body caricature domestic England England, South East England, Southern Farringford features fine arts and music groups individuals: male interiors Isle of Wight legs crossed literary living room man named groups named individuals objects people picture places poet portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood sculpture Sellwood, Emily sitting social comment society talking Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Emily UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions window woman Woolner, Thomas work and occupations