FDA-P.101-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.101-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Hist, said Kate the Queen
Title Type
assigned by artist
Description
Painted scene with figures
Comments
The subject of this painting is taken from Robert Browning's verse drama 'Pippa Passes' (published 1841).
'No. 12 THE QUEEN'S PAGE.
"'Hist!' said Kate , the Queen.
But , 'O,' said the maiden, binding her tresses,
'It's only a page that carols unseen;
Crumbling your hounds their messes,
Fitting your hawks their jesses.'"
Pippa Passes. - ROBERT BROWNING.
This drawing is not included in Mr. Sharp's list, but is the original in water colour from which afterwards Rossetti began a large painting in oil, subsequently destroyed; a portion, however, was preserved in Mr. Hutton's "Two Mothers" (No. 7). See Mr. Sharp's volume, p. 146, and his catalogue, Nos. 18 and 26.
Water Colour. 1851. Size 12 by 22 1/2.
Lent by the Hon. Mrs. Spring Rice.'
[Source: 'Pictures, Drawings Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti', Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1883, p.18, catalogue number 12]
'No. 12 THE QUEEN'S PAGE.
"'Hist!' said Kate , the Queen.
But , 'O,' said the maiden, binding her tresses,
'It's only a page that carols unseen;
Crumbling your hounds their messes,
Fitting your hawks their jesses.'"
Pippa Passes. - ROBERT BROWNING.
This drawing is not included in Mr. Sharp's list, but is the original in water colour from which afterwards Rossetti began a large painting in oil, subsequently destroyed; a portion, however, was preserved in Mr. Hutton's "Two Mothers" (No. 7). See Mr. Sharp's volume, p. 146, and his catalogue, Nos. 18 and 26.
Water Colour. 1851. Size 12 by 22 1/2.
Lent by the Hon. Mrs. Spring Rice.'
[Source: 'Pictures, Drawings Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti', Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1883, p.18, catalogue number 12]
Description
Dimensions
height (sight size): 310mm
width (sight size): 575mm
width (sight size): 575mm
Inscription
Signed with monogram and dated 1851
Frame inscribed in paint, top left: 'DGR'; top right: 'PRB'; bottom: 'Hist... said Kate the Queen'
Frame inscribed in paint, top left: 'DGR'; top right: 'PRB'; bottom: 'Hist... said Kate the Queen'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved and painted gilt frame
Production
Person
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828 - 1882 (Artist)
Date
1851
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Charlotte Polidori (aunt of the artist); by whom returned to the artist in 1856; from whom purchased by William Marshall of Patteradle Hall and 85 Eaton Square, London, in 1856, probably for 30 of 40 guineas;; collection of the Honourable Mrs Spring Rice by 1883; collection of Stephen Edward Spring-Rice (KS 1868-1874) and by descent; presented to Eton College by the children of Stephen Edward Spring-Rice: Edward Spring-Rice (KS 1904-1909) and Mary Honora Booth
Exhibited: 'Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti', Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1883, catalogue number 12 (as 'The Queen's Page'; described as a watercolour), lent by the Honourable Mrs Spring Rice; 'Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period', Tate, London, 1923, catalogue number 19; 'Victorian Paintings', Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, November 1961, catalogue number 63; The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate, London, 7 March to 28 May 1984
Exhibited: 'Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti', Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1883, catalogue number 12 (as 'The Queen's Page'; described as a watercolour), lent by the Honourable Mrs Spring Rice; 'Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period', Tate, London, 1923, catalogue number 19; 'Victorian Paintings', Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, November 1961, catalogue number 63; The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate, London, 7 March to 28 May 1984
References
• Surtees, V., The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Oxford, 1971 (Text p.16, Plates no.49, no.38)
