Study for 'Sigismonda'

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Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S. (1861-1944)
Study for 'Sigismonda'
signed with monogram and dated '1898' (lower left)
pencil heightened with white, unframed
9 x 8½ in. (22.8 x 21.6 cm.); and five unframed drawings of classical ladies and a sleeping shepherd, by the same hand (6)

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Lot Essay

Southall's painting 'Sigismonda' (Birmingham Art Gallery) was exhibited at the New Gallery, London, in the summer of 1898. It was also included in the 1980 exhibition catalogue, pp. 33-34, no. B2 (illustrated).

The painting shows the heroine drinking poison after her father has killed her lover, Guïscardo, and sent her his heart in a goblet. The story was the subject of a well-known painting by William Hogarth (Tate Britain).

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