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invaluable to scholars and those working outside academia such as curators,
conservators and auctioneers. Surprisingly there have been relatively few catalogues
raisonnés written about artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1971 Virginia
Surtees produced her monumental catalogue raisonné of the paintings and drawings of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 31 This gathered together, for the first time, works covering
his entire oeuvre, thus enabling her to reindentify many previously unknown works in
private collections. In the last fifteen years Leonard Roberts has published a complete
catalogue of the works of Arthur Hughes and Betty Elzea has produced a catalogue
raisonné of works by Frederick Sandys. 32 Most recently Judith Bronkhurst published
William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné. 33 Her clear format and concise,
scholarly entries have helped shaped the present catalogue.
Very little has been written on the drawings by Brown at BMAG. One of the best
sources of information on them is A. E. Whitley's Catalogue of the permanent
Collection of Drawings in Pen, Pencil, Charcoal and Chalk, etc., including Cartoons
for Stained Glass published in 1939. 34 He was the first to publish a complete check-
list of the collection, providing titles and identifications based on the original
information accompanying the works on entry. The preparatory nature of many of the
drawings allowed him to group the works by painting, an approach with has
influenced the formatting of this catalogue. One of the aims of this project has been
to update and build upon Whitley's catalogue. This has become more necessary in
31
Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue
Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford, 1971.
32
Leonard Roberts, Arthur Hughes: His Life and Work, Woodbridge, 1997 and Betty Elzea, Frederick
Sandys 1829-1904: Catalogue Raisonné, Woodbridge, 2001.
33
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., New Haven and London,
2006.
34
A. E. Whitley, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Catalogue of the permanent Collection
of Drawings in Pen, Pencil, Charcoal and Chalk, etc., including Cartoons for Stained Glass, Derby,
1939.
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