id:			170741
accession number:	2013.261
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Cordelia Parting from her Sisters, 1854. Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893). Pen and oil on paper on panel; framed: 30.5 x 36.8 x 3.5 cm (12 x 14 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.); unframed: 19.5 x 26.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz 2013.261

title:				Cordelia Parting from her Sisters
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creation date:			1854
creation date earliest:		1854
creation date latest:		1854
current location:		203B British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline:			Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	pen and oil on paper on panel
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 30.5 x 36.8 x 3.5 cm (12 x 14 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 19.5 x 26.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)
	opening date:   2020-06-30T04:00:00
	<i>British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	July/August 1854 - D.T. White (dealer), acquired for £10
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	by February 1855 - B.G. Windus
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	July 19 1862 - Windus auction, Christie's, London (43), sold as Goneril and Regan
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	June 1873 - Tooth, London, auction, acquired by John Miller for £16, who exchanged it with the artist for a portrait of himself (Miller)
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	1874 - Edward Bright, purchased from the artist for £65
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	by 1897 - Thomas Reid Wilkinson, Manchester
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	November 11, 1960 - Christie's, London (lot 109), bought by J.S. Maas & Co. Ltd., £22.2s.od
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	Charles Handley-Reid, London [?]
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	by 1973 - Robert Walker, Paris
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	J.S. Maas & Co., sold to private collection
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	Helen [1929-2012] and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Borowitz, Helen O. "King Lear in the Art of Ford Madox Brown." <em>Victorian Studies</em>, Vol 21, no. 3 (Spring, 1978). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN: 309-334.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 326-328; Reproduced: p. 327
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	Surtees, Virginia. <em>The Diary of Ford Madox Brown</em>. New Haven, CT: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1981.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 71, 80, 82, 123, 125, 131
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	Macleod, Dianne Sachko. <em>Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity</em>. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 451-452
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	Bennett, Mary, and Ford Madox Brown. <em>Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 178
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