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Title: 1904P284 Tristram and Yseult drinking the Love Potion
Description: 1904P284 [Recto - Front]
Tristram and Yseult drinking the Love Potion - Compositional Study / (Verso) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante - Sketch for the Figure of Dante holding a Pomegranate, 1852-67
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Recto: Tristram and Yseult drinking together, with Love in the background.

Verso: cropped sketch of Dante with a pomegranate in one hand and a knife in the other and faint second head.

This is a study for the 1867 watercolour now at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. On the back of the sheet is an earlier sketch of 1852 of Dante for the watercolour 'Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante' (Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection).
Keywords:
Art Movement
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Pre-Raphaelite
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Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
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Pencil
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Sketch
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Figurative
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Study
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Works on Paper
   
Usage Rights: Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0
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Height: 557, 282, 242
Width: 403, 221, 180
Unit: mm, mm, mm
Credit Line: Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.