Initial Sketches for The Siren; Vanity; Medea in Jason and Medea; Ariadne; A Listener in A Tale from the Decameron; Penelope and the Suitors on the end-papers and leaves of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Routledge and Sons, London & New York, 1880

JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (1849-1917) Biography
PRE-RAPHAELITE (founded 1848) Biography

Initial Sketches for The Siren; Vanity; Medea in Jason and Medea; Ariadne; A Listener in A Tale from the Decameron; Penelope and the Suitors on the end-papers and leaves of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Routledge and Sons, London & New York, 1880 (England, 1880 - 1910)

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Pencil on paper book leaves
Signed on the fly leaf in pencil J. W. Waterhouse and in ink on a further page John Physick

Dimensions

18.00cm high
12.00cm wide
(4.72 inches wide)
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Provenance

John William Waterhouse RA; by descent to his great-nephew:
Dr. John Physick; to 2003

Literature

Elizabeth Prettejohn, Peter Trippi, Robert Upstone, Patty Wageman, J. W. Waterhouse 1849 - 1917 The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, Catalogue of the travelling exhibition at Groninger Museum 14 December 2008 - 3 May 2009, Royal Academy, London 27 June - 13 September 2009 and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1 October 2009 - 7 February 2010, number 99, illustrated page 232

Exhibition History

J. W. Waterhouse 1849 - 1917 The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, Groninger Museum 14 December 2008 - 3 May 2009, Royal Academy, London 27 June - 13 September 2009 and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1 October 2009 - 7 February 2010, number 99