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This exhibition was held at the Walker Art Gallery in 2003/4.

'King Ren's Honeymoon (Music)', Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Drawing showing a man and a woman kissing over a musical instrument

Ink and wash on paper, dated 1862, 43.2 x 33.7cm, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead; Wirral Museums Service

This is a scene from a novel by Sir Walter Scott about the honeymoon of the art-loving King Ren of Anjou. Rossetti shows him kissing the future Queen Isabella as she plays the organ.