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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.670
People
Ford Madox Brown, British (Calais, France 1821 - 1893 London, England)
Title
Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1855-1856
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297651

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on tan board
Dimensions
19.7 x 26 cm (7 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Acquired for £5 from the artist by D.T. White (January 1856), sold]; to B.G. Windus (1856-1868), sold; [through Christie’s, London, February 14-17, 1868, lot 219, £4]; to H. Virtue Tebbs (1868-1900), sold; [through Christie’s, London, March 10, 1900, lot 6, 14 guineas]; to Dunthorne. Thomas Brocklebank, Wateringbury Place, Kent (by 1909-1938), sold; [through Christie’s, London, July 8, 1938, lot 8, 16 guineas]; to Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop (1938-1943), bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.670
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ford Madox Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Works, Longmans, Green and Co. (New York, NY and London, England, 1896), pp. 114, 436 (list)
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 3
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letters, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1965-1967), vol. 1, nos. 107, 109
  • Virginia Surtees, ed., The Diary of Ford Madox Brown, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1981), pp. 80, 82, 156, 158-162
  • Dianne Sachko Macleod, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, Cambridge University Press (New York, 1996), p. 479
  • Dennis Lanigan, A Dream of the Past: Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings from the Lanigan Collection, exh. cat., University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2000), No. 5
  • Mary Bennett, Ford Madox Brown, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2010), vol. 1, p. 116 as cat. no. A 51.6, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown, Grafton Galleries, London, 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1897
  • Collected Works of Ford Madox Brown, Leicester Galleries, London, 06/01/1909 - 07/31/1909
  • Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 09/14/1911 - 11/30/1911
  • Works by Pre-Raphaelite Painters from Collections in Lancashire, Tate Britain, London, 07/01/1913 - 09/01/1913
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946

Verification Level

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