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Sir Galahad and an Angel
Alternately titled: Alma Mater and Mr. Woodward
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1857
Physical Description
Medium: pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 9 x 8 3/4
Production Description
Production Date: 1857
Exhibition History: Tate 1923 (no.163)
Model: Mr. Benjamin Woodward.
Note: Woodward is supposed to have modelled for the head of Sir Galahad.
Provenance
Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 399'04
Archival History: H. Virtue Tebbs; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 128. -
Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 23. -
Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 50.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s96.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This drawing was executed at the same time as the Oxford Union murals. According to Surtees, the drawing is “thought to be a satire on the manner in which the University authorities dealt with Mr. Benjamin Woodward, the architect of the Debating Hall” (vol. 1, 55).
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