| Title: | 1904P481 The Laboratory |
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| Description: |
1904P481 The Laboratory, 1849 Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti An illustration to Browning's poem 'The Laboratory', set in the eighteenth-century, this said to be Rossetti's first watercolour over a drawing. An alchemist seated in his laboratory accepts jewellery from a woman in payment for poison to destroy her rival. The painting illustrates the lines 'In this devil's smithy / Where is the poison to poison her prithee?' |
| Keywords: |
Art Movement/ Pre-Raphaelite, Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Drawing, Watercolour, Pencil, Sketch, Figurative, Illustration, Literature/ Poetry, Study, Works on Paper |
| Usage Rights: | Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 |
| Height: | 402, 198 |
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| Width: | 554, 250 |
| Unit: | mm, mm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903. |
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