Simeon Solomon: Artwork Database 1856-1860

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1856: Faust and Marguerite

Pen and ink and pencil on paper
support: 254 x 202 mm
Tate - LINK
Bequeathed by Alfred M.H. Solomon and the estate of Marguerite I.R. Solomon 1993

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1856: Eight Scenes from the Story of David and Jonathon

Pencil and gold leaf on paper
support: 255 x 366 mm
Tate - LINK
Bequeathed by Alfred M.H. Solomon and the estate of Marguerite I.R. Solomon 1993

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c. 1856-1862 Great Bookcase - William Burges

height 400cm approx - oak, carved, painted and gilt
Artists Involved in decoration:
Simeon Solomon, William Burges, Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Thomas Morten, Albert Joseph Moore, William Frederick Yeames
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, Henry Holiday
Edward John Poynter, Nathaniel Herbert John Westlake, Thomas Pritchard Rossiter
Charles Rossiter, Frederick Smallfield, Henry Stacy Marks, Frederick Weekes
John Anster Fitzgerald

Ashmolean Museum
Image courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum

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1857: The Prodigal Son

Oil on card
William Morris Gallery

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1857: Baby Asleep

Pencil on white paper
Signed with initials and dated 8/57
100x100 cm
© Private Collection

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1857: Five Unknown Figures

Pen and ink, 1857
169 mm x 213 mm
National Portrait Gallery - LINK
Purchased, 1987

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1857: Abraham and Isaac

Private Collection

1857: Hagar and Ishmael

Private Collection
Pen and ink

1857: I am Starving

Pen and black ink with grey wash
Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington - LINK
© NGA, Washington

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1857: Anima-Chiari

Fine Arts Society, London

1857: The Soul Released from the Body

Sepia wash
Private Collection

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1858: The Schoolroom Door

etching
Ashmolean Museum

1858: Sacrifice of Isaac

Pen and brown ink over pencil
Ashmolean Museum

1858: Semiramis

Pen and ink on paper - from a sketchbook
Mishkan Le'Omanut Museum, Ein Harod, Israel

1858: The Haunted House

Etching printed on laid India paper
13 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (34.9 x 24.4 cm)
Illustration to Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood, 1858, p7.
Image courtesy of Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington - LINK
© Delaware Art Museum

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1858: By the Waters of Babylon

Untraced

1858: Isaac Offered

Watercolour
Private Collection

1858: Triumph

Private Collection

1858: Peace

Private Collection

1858: Love

Pen and sepia ink and wash over pencil on paper
Private Collection

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1859: Dantes First Meeting with Beatrice

194 x 229mm
Pen and ink on paper
Tate - LINK

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1859: Nathan Reproving David

Pen and ink over pencil on paper
Victoria and Albert Museum

1859: Revenge

Pen and brown ink on paper
© Private Collection
Image courtesy of owner

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1859: Babylon hath been a Golden Cup

Pen with black and brown ink over traves of pencil on paper
Image courtesy of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - LINK
© BMAG

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1859: Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over graphite.
25.4 x 21.5 cm
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© MMA, New York

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1859: Portrait of Edward Burne-Jones

Pencil on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Image courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum

1859: Portrait of Fanny Eaton

Drawing
Study for the head of Miriam for the Mother of Moses (1860)
Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - LINK

© Fitzwilliam Museum

1859: Portrait of Mrs Fanny Eaton

Drawing
Study of Jochabed for painting Mother of Moses (1860)
Image courtesy of the ©Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - LINK

© Fitzwilliam Museum

1859: Self Portrait

165x146mm
Pencil on paper
Tate - LINK

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1860: Mother of Moses

Oil on canvas
24 x 19 7/8 in. (61 x 50.5 cm)
Image courtesy of Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington  - LINK

© Delaware Art Museum

1860: Study for a Hebrew Musician

Graphite on off-white woven paper
[Also described as 'Self Portrait' but this seems unlikely]
The Art Institute of Chicago - LINK

1860: Ruth, Naomi and the Child Obed

Pen and brown ink over pencil on paper
Image courtesy of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - LINK

© BMAG

1860: Purification of Isaiah

Graphite and brown ink
British Museum - LINK

1860: Study for Hosannah!

Pen
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, California. - LINK

1860: Queen Esther Hearing the News of the Intended Massacre of the Jews

Brown and black ink on paper
© Private Collection
Image courtesy of owner

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1860: Beatrice

Brown and black ink on paper
Private Collection

1860: David Dancing before the Ark

Private Collection

1860: Portrait of Kate Solomon

Black chalk on paper
Private Collection

1860: Lizzie

Pen and ink and watercolour
Ashmolean Museum