1592951638000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-8805 1747159960560 1710146808000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-8805 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8805 2f1d3962-7b15-3bb6-a95c-fb83e1b083be 6 reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing grey reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Paintings, Drawings and Prints PD.36-1980 1 accession number PD.36-1980 8805 priref 8805 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8805 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/8805 verso of old board red ink Sir Max Beerbohm. No. 9112 / 'Rossetti & Swinburne' verso of old board blue ink SA verso of old board blue ink A preliminary drawing for the series 'Rossetti and his Circle' / published in 1922. In the published version it appeared as / Plate 17, with Gosse substituted for Rossetti; with the caption:- / Riverside scene: Algernon Swinburne taking his guest (great?) new / friend Gosse to see Gabriel Rossetti from Sir Rupert Hart-Davis correctly identifying the subject, dated 9 March 1970 and addressed to Tim Munby verso of old board letter, pasted down My dear Tim, / I think I have solved the problem of your Max drawing of Rossetti. / Directly I saw the photograph I was quite certain that the other figure wasn't / Swinburne whom Max always drew as a waist-high dwarf with flowing locks (see / the drawing of him walking with Gosse on the same embankment in 'Rossetti and / his Circle'). I know the Leicester Galleries catalogued the drawing as 'Rossetti / and the young Swinburne', but that was in 1957, after Max was dead and they / simply made a bad guess. // From time to time the Leicester Galleries used to send Max a list of / drawings sold and unsold, and from these lists I noted a few titles which / were new to me. Among them was one saying: 'S.H. vainly endeavouring to enlist / D.G.R.'s interest in some singularly interesting experiment'. I have no doubt / that S.H. stands for Sylvester Hethway, the dullard who had known Rossetti and other famous men but haf nothing new or interesting to say about any of them, (see Max's broadcast 'Hethway Speaking' in the 1957 edition of Mainly on the Air). / Your drawing seems to me to fit this title completely and I hope you'll agree. / Yours ever / Rupert reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-152376 adlib-agent-152376 bf24535b-ba6e-337e-bb45-9eb2bb537541 Munby, A. N. L., Mrs 1980 1980 1980 given draughtsman reference agent-9451 adlib-agent-9451 34811ad7-6492-3027-b796-b6a070b93562 Beerbohm, Max Height mm 202 Width mm 252 reference term-31041 adlib-term-31041 777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95 graphite reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing history note with the Leicester Galleries; A.N.L. Munby; Mrs A.N.L. Munby reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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