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Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1867

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1867

Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no. 335), lt. J. Leathart; Leeds City Art Gallery, 1889; Birmingham Art Gallery, 1891 (no. 180); Leighton House Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelite Influence , 1960 (no. 87), lt. T.G.W. Rowe; Maas Gallery, Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries , 1961 (no. 78); Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leathart Collection, Oct. 1968 (no. 66)

Original Cost: £200

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Note: Surtees notes that Jane Burden Morris sat for the figure of Yseult ( A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 114).

Provenance

Current Location: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Catalog Number: P. 401

Archival History: T.H. McConnell; sold to James Leathart (1872) for £200; M. Sears; The Honble. Lady Hood; T.G.W. Rowe, bt. c. 1954 from Maas Gallery (£25); bt. from Maas Gallery (1961) by Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Mancoff, The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art, 182-83.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 32.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 114 (no. 200).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 290.

Reproductions

Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 32.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 290.
Hollyer print, Delaware Art Museum.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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