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Sir Galahad and an Angel

Alternately titled: Alma Mater and Mr. Woodward

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1857

Physical Description

Medium: pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 9 x 8 3/4

Production Description

Production Date: 1857
Exhibition History: Tate 1923 (no.163)
Model: Mr. Benjamin Woodward.
Note: Woodward is supposed to have modelled for the head of Sir Galahad.

Provenance

Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 399'04
Archival History: H. Virtue Tebbs; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This drawing was executed at the same time as the Oxford Union murals. According to Surtees, the drawing is “thought to be a satire on the manner in which the University authorities dealt with Mr. Benjamin Woodward, the architect of the Debating Hall” (vol. 1, 55).

Bibliography

Sir Galahad and an Angel
Copyright: ©Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 128.
  2. image

    Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 23.
  3. image

    Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 50.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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