drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,1013.25
- Description
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Portrait of Ruth Herbert; whole-length and standing turned to left, eyes appear closed and wearing a long dress. 1860
Black and white chalk, on buff paper
- Production date
- 1858 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 410 millimetres
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Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gere 1994
As an actress Louisa Ruth Herbert called herself Louisa Herbert. Rossetti, who first met her in 1858 and addressed her as "loveliest of your sex and goddess of the P.R.B.", always refers to her as Ruth Herbert. In 1858-9 she was one of his favourite models, and he drew and painted many portraits of her (S 325-336). It was for her that he painted the watercolour 'Writing on the Sand' (1886,0607.14) in 1859, and the drawing of her by Sandys must date from about the same time.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.271
1980, BM, 'British Figure Drawings' (no.cat)
1994-5 Sep-Jan, BM, 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings', no.105
2001/2, Oct-Jan, Norwich, Castle Museum, 'Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites', no.51
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Acquisition notes
- Mary Sandys had offered the drawing to the Victoria and Albert Museum for forty guineas in June 1909 but the offer was declined.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,1013.25
