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  • The Small Hours in the ‘Sixties at 16 Cheyne Walk

Sir Max Beerbohm

The Small Hours in the ‘Sixties at 16 Cheyne Walk

1916

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Artist
Sir Max Beerbohm 1872–1956
Part of
Rossetti and his Friends
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 225 × 349 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
Reference
A01048

Catalogue entry

A01048 [from] ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS (TWENTY-THREE DRAWINGS) 1916–17 [A01038-A01060; complete]
 
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941.
Coll: Mrs Charles Hunter; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries; from whom purchased by Sir Hugh Walpole 1921.
Lit: Lynch, 1921, pp.146–50.

A series of twenty-three drawings, variously dated 1916 and 1917. Fifteen were lent by Mrs Charles Hunter to the Modern Loan Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98); the complete series was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (1), in the order in which they are given here, again as Rossetti and his Friends. They were published in book form by Heinemann in 1922 as Rossetti and His Circle, possibly an allusion to Rossetti's Dante and His Circle, the second edition of his translations from the early Italian poets, published in 1874. The complete series of drawings was further exhibited in Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period, Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336), and was on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938. For further details, see below (artists represented in the collection will be fully discussed in the appropriate section of the catalogue).

(xi) Inscr. ‘The small hours in the 'Sixties at 16 Cheyne Walk. - Algernon reading “Anactoria” to Gabriel and William.’ b.r. and ‘Max 1916’ c.r.
Pencil and watercolour, 8 1/2×13 3/4 (22·5×35).
Exh: Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 6); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (11); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 11); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
Lit: Lynch, 1921, p.149.
Repr: Rossetti and His Circle, 1922, pl.11 (in colour); Max Beerbohm, Poet's Corner, 1943 ed., pl.3 (in colour).

Swinburne with Rossetti and his brother at Tudor House, Cheyne Walk, where they lived after the death of Rossetti's wife in 1862.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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