Previously unseen Rossetti to go on show

Posted: Dec 02, 2010 |Comments: 0 |

Mnemosyne, an unseen work by artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti will be shown next year at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, reports BBC News.

The delicate pastel drawing remained in Rossetti's private studio until his passing in 1882, and since has been housed in a private collection. The image depicts his muse, Jane Morris, with whom he fell in love later in life, and is based on Greek methodology's personification of memory.

The drawing (currently housed in Delaware Art Museum) will hang alongside other pieces of late 19th century art, including a portrait of the infamous pre-Raphaelite model, Elizabeth Siddal. According to Birmingham News Room, it is the most comprehensive collection of art from this time ever to be staged, and will be open to the public from January to May 2011. It will then move across the world's art galleries and transfer to The Art gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney.


Rossetti began work on the drawing in 1876, working on it for 5 years before completion in 1881. Morris regularly appears in Rossetti's work, more often than not representing mythological and literary characters, rather than herself.

Morris' distinctive look (thick, dark hair and strong features) is typical of the pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty, and upon viewing the many paintings of Morris, novelist Henry James wrote "It's hard to say [whether] she's a grand synthesis of all the pre-Raphaelite pictures ever made - or they a keen analysis of her - whether she's an original or a copy. In either case, she is a wonder."

A contact from Birmingham City Council, Councillor Martin Mullaney, is in full support of the project, announcing "It is an extraordinary coup by our world-class museum and art gallery to secure this previously unseen work by Rossetti for the exhibition. I am very grateful to the anonymous lender for the generosity for this loan. I know it will help draw many visitors to our city to see this extraordinary exhibition."

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