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Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.
Drawing of The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, model holding white flower, on cover of 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours', by Ashmolean Museum.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours

By (author) Christiana Payne
Contributions by Fiona Mann
Contributions by Robert Wilkes

$35.00

  • An exhibition catalog focusing on the Ashmolean's rarely seen reserve collection of Pre-Raphaelite art works
  • The incredible collection demonstrates the enormous range of Pre-Raphaelite drawing techniques and media, including pencil, pen and ink, chalk, watercolor, bodycolour and metallic paints
Full Description
Oxford has a special place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism. Thomas Combe (superintendent of the Clarendon Press) encouraged John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt at a crucial early stage of their careers, and his collection became the nucleus of the Ashmolean collection of works by the Brotherhood and their associates. Two young undergraduates, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, saw the Combe collection and became enthusiastic converts to the movement. With Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1857 they undertook the decoration of the debating chamber (now the Old Library) of the Oxford Union. The group’s champion John Ruskin also studied in Oxford, where he oversaw the design of the University Museum of Natural History and established the Ruskin School of Drawing. Jane Burden, future wife of Morris and muse (probably also lover) of Rossetti, was a local girl, first spotted at the theatre in Oxford.    Oxford’s key role in the movement has made it a magnet for important bequests and acquisitions, most recently of Burne-Jones’s illustrated letters and paintbrushes. The collection of watercolors and drawings includes a wide variety of appealing works, from Hunt’s first drawing on the back of a tiny envelope for The Light of the World (Keble College), to large, elaborate chalk drawings of Jane Morris by Rossetti. It is especially rich in portraits, which throw an intimate light on the friendships and love affairs of the artists, and in landscapes which reflect Ruskin’s advice to ‘go to nature’. More than just an exhibition catalog, this book is a showcase of the Ashmolean’s incredible collection, and demonstrates the enormous range of Pre-Raphaelite drawing techniques and media, including pencil, pen and ink, chalk, watercolor, bodycolor and metallic paints. It will include designs for stained glass and furniture, as well as preparatory drawings for some of the well-known paintings in the collection.
About the Author
Christiana Payne is Professor Emerita in History of Art in the Department of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests are in 18th and 19th-century British landscape and genre painting, with a particular emphasis on the representation of the poor and the relationship of art to its social and political context. She has curated exhibitions and displays at Tate Britain, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Higgins, Bedford and Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance.
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Specifications
Publisher
Ashmolean Museum
ISBN
9781910807439
Published
18th Mar 2021
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
8.66 in x 11.02 in
Pages
240 Pages
Illustrations
130 color
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