An Early Drawing by RossettiAuthor(s): Edward Croft MurraySource: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Mar., 1937), pp. 95-96Published by: British MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421957 .

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XXIV. a, PORTRAIT OF AMBROISE PARI. b, 'THE SLEEPER', BY ROSSETTI

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collected' all the information he could find regarding the boundaries of counties and sees, the Irish clans and English lords, the forts, castles, and harbours. It is not possible to identify the districts he sur- veyed himself, but they were probably in counties Waterford and Tipperary. So little was known in England about the remoter parts of Ireland that he named a rock off the coast of Antrim 'Baptistes rock', and Elstrack, going one better, named one of the northern Isles of Arran 'Elstrakes Ile'. Boazio inserted many historical legends, such as 'Englishmen landed first at this place Bonnogh Baie' (in Wexford) and 'Fort of Dongannon Tyreone his principall seate or cheif house'. Despite its faults from the geographical point of view, the map is of great interest for its historical information, its beautiful engraving, its Elizabethan features, and its illuminating errors. It is hoped that the Trustees may publish facsimile reproductions in the course of the present year. EDWARD LYNAM.

63. AN EARLY DRAWING BY ROSSETTI.

THE decorative pen-and-ink drawing reproduced on P1.

XXIVb was acquired by the Department of Prints and Drawings in June

of 1936. It is inscribed at the top E. A. POE and D. G. ROSSETTI, and at the foot The Sleeper, of which poem it illustrates the following lines : 'I pray to God that she may be

For ever with unopened eye While the dim sheeted ghosts go by.'

Mr H. C. Marillier in his 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti', 1899, p. 234, cites two pen drawings made by that artist of subjects taken from Edgar Allan Poe, for whom he is known to have had a very great admiration. Both of these drawings may be dated about 1848, the year in which he first made the acquaintance of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and no doubt the present design belongs to about the same period. It is said to have been given by Rossetti, in the year it was made, to the portrait-painter Lowes Cato Dickinson, who was well acquainted with the pre-Raphaelite circle. From Lowes Cato Dickinson it passed to his youngest son Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Next, it was

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inherited by the latter's sister, who sold it to the firm from which it was acquired by the British Museum. It forms an interesting addi- tion to the group of original works by Rossetti in the collection, where hitherto the earliest pen-and-ink drawing has been the study, made in I853, for the picture 'Found', bequeathed by Colonel Gillum, together with other Rossetti drawings, in 1910o.

EDWARD CROFT MURRAY.

64. GIFT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY.

ONE hundred and twenty-one prints, thirty-one drawings, and

one book of reproductions have recently been presented to the Museum by the Contemporary Art Society. Most important of the prints is the series of Stations of the Cross, fourteen large lithographs by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. (see P1. XXVa). Brangwyn's designs originated in the cartoons which he was preparing for oil paintings intended for Arras Cathedral, but the paintings were never completed. One set of the lithographs was printed by an entirely new process on sycamore panels, and presented to Campion Hall, Oxford.

The prints include examples of the work of Albert Abramovitz (American subjects), Stanley Anderson, S. R. Badmin, D. P. Bliss, Ian Cheyne, John Copley, Paul Drury, John Farleigh, Eric Gill, Edwin Greenman, A. S. Hartrick, Stanley Hickson, William Ker- mode, J. E. Laboureur, Mariette Lydis, Concord and Cavendish Morton,John Platt, Gwendolen Raverat, Eric Ravilious, F. H. Spear, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Urushibara, Clifford Webb, and Josef Weisz.

Among the drawings may be mentioned works by Lily Blather- wick (the late Mrs A. S. Hartrick), Horace Brodzky, Charles M. Gere, Karl Hagedorn, Mary Hogarth, Beatrice How, Anton Lock, Georges Loukomski, Ambrose McEvoy, Christopher Perkins, Percy J. Smith, Alfred Thornton, and Vivian Forbes (see P1. XXVb, Portrait of Henri Matisse). Twenty-five per cent. of the annual purchases of the Fund, which

is administered by the Keeper of Prints and Drawings, is now allotted to provincial and other Museums besides the British Museum.

A. M. HIND.

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