Isabella: 'Piteous she looked on dead and senseless things, Asking for her lost Basil piteously [sic]'

Provenance

W. Graham Robertson (+); Christie's, London, 22 July 1949, lot 159 (15 gns to Wiggins?).
Mrs A.M.W. Stirling.

Literature

Henry Blackburn (ed.), Grosvenor Notes, London, 1879, p. 18.
Athenaeum, no. 2689, 10 May 1879, p. 607.
Academy, no. 367, New Series, 17 May 1879, p. 441.
Percy Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelites, Their Associates and Successors, 4th ed., London, 1910, illustrated facing p. 110.
Sir Isidore Spielmann, Internatioanl Fine Arts Exhibition, Rome: Souvenir of the British Section, London, 1911, p. 276 (illustrated), p. 285.

Exhibited

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1879, no. 40.
London, Corporation Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures, 1892, no. 164, lent by Graham Robertson.
Dublin, Irish International Exhibition, 1907.
Rome, International Fine Arts Exhibition, 1911, British Section, no. 337, lent by Graham Robertson.
Buxton, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Tales Retold: Boccaccio's Decameron, 17th-19th Centuries, 1983, no. 14.
The Pre-Raphaelites and their Times, exh. circulated in Japan by the Tokyo Shimbun, 1985, no. 30.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, 1989, no. 44.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, and Madrid, Museo del Prado, Victorianische Malerei: Von Turner bis Whistler (Pintura Victoriana: De Turner a Whistler), 1993, no. 75.
Yale Centre for British Art, Denver Museum of Art, and Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England, 1996, no. 55.
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Daimatu Museum, Kobe, and Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, The Victorian Imagination, 1998, no. 60.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Wilde Years, 2000-2001, no. 175.