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Parting of Ulysses

Maker

(artist)
1829-1896

Title

Parting of Ulysses

Date of Production

(circa) 1862

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour on wove paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 9.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3813

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Violet Mond, Lady Melchett (1867-1945); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 11 March 1946 (£12); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Imagining Islands, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-21/07/2013

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/02/2011-15/05/2011

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Literature

Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings & Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
no. 32
ill. on p. 121

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 32
ill. on p. 121

Goldman, Paul, Beyond Decoration: the Illustrations of John Everett Millais, London, 2005
pp. 294-95 ...More

Goldman, Paul, Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians, Aldershot, 1996
p. 297

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 57 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down on mount.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, grey ink, signed with monogram: "J.M.". Mount (historic), Recto: lower left of centre, arrow pointing up at monogram within drawing. Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: "Sir JE. Millais Bart PRA. / The Farewell / From the Collection of Violet Lady Melchett (decd)"; lower right, graphite: "46/1". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right and left, graphite: "Sir John Millais, P.R.A. / 1829-1896 / The Farewell / signed with initial / Exhib Arts Council 1948/9".

Collector's mark: none.

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