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>
Spring Cottage Hampstead 1860
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
attic
caricature
chair
clothing and personal items
domestic
England
furnishings
gesticulating
Hampstead, Spring Cottage
hat
individuals: female
individuals: male
interiors
kitchen
kneeling
literary
man
named groups
named individuals
objects
Patmore, Coventry
people
places
poet
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor
sitting
social comment
society
tea pot
UK countries and regions
UK London
woman
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
Spring Cottage, Hampstead, 1860
support: 324 × 432 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>A01045</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>(viii) Inscr. ‘Spring Cottage, Hampstead. 1860.’ b.l., ‘Coventry Patmore comes round from Elm Cottage yonder, and very vehemently preaches to the Rossettis that a tea-pot is not worshipful for its form and colour, but rather as one of the sublime symbols of Domesticity.’ b.c. and ‘Max 1917’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 12 3/4×17 (32·5×43).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (8); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 8); 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.5 (in colour).</p>
<p>Coventry Patmore (1823–96), the poet and critic.</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 artist, painter arts and entertainment attic caricature chair clothing and personal items domestic England furnishings gesticulating Hampstead, Spring Cottage hat individuals: female individuals: male interiors kitchen kneeling literary man named groups named individuals objects Patmore, Coventry people places poet portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor sitting social comment society tea pot UK countries and regions UK London woman work and occupations