A comprehensive and superbly illustrated study that reveals for the first time how drawing was central to the activity of making art for the Pre-Raphaelites.

The book explores the full variety of Pre-Raphaelite drawing and demonstrates the impact that it had on turn-of-the-century British art movements such as Aestheticism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau. Illustrated with the most important Pre-Raphaelite drawings from public and private collections in Britain—including striking works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Edward Burne- Jones that have never before been exhibited or reproduced—it offers an intimate look into the enchanting world of the Pre-Raphaelites. 175 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of radical young artists who banded together in London in 1848. This book explores the vital role played by drawing and design in the work of the Brotherhood and their associates and followers. Alongside nudes and figure studies are the group’s portraits, self-portraits, and caricatures that were often exchanged as gifts between friends; delicate studies of nature by John Ruskin and John Brett; scenes derived from religious, literary, and medieval sources; captivating studies of the iconic Pre-Raphaelite models Lizzie Siddal and Jane Morris; and original designs for stained glass, textiles, and ceramics.

The book explores the full variety of Pre-Raphaelite drawing and demonstrates the impact that it had on turn-of-the-century British art movements such as Aestheticism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau. Illustrated with the most important Pre-Raphaelite drawings from public and private collections in Britain—including striking works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Edward Burne- Jones that have never before been exhibited or reproduced—it offers an intimate look into the enchanting world of the Pre-Raphaelites. 175 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.

Director's Foreword 6

Drawings and Drawing:A CPre-Raphaelite Introduction lo

Chapter 1 The Flat, the Antique and the Life:Academic Drawing and the Pre-Raphaelites 22

Chapter 2 Direct and Heartfelt:Early on Influences on Pre-Raphaelite Drawing 42

Chapter 3 Studying Nature Attentively:Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelitism 64

Chapter 4 Drawing the Circle: Portraits,Self-Portraits and Caricatures 88

Chapter 5 Pre-Raphaelite Compositions:Drawing History, Drawing Modernity 118

Chapter 6 The Poetry of Illustration: Disseminating Pre-Raphaelite Drawing in the 185os and 186os 144

Chapter 7 Working Drawings: Design and Pattern from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement 166

Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Drawingfrom the 186os to the 1890s: The Pre-Raphaelite Influence 186

Notes 206

List of Works 212

Bibliography 236

Picture Credits 242

Lenders to the Exhibition 243

Author's Acknowledgments 244

Index 245