Simeon Solomon ResearchArchive

INTRODUCTION TO THE SITE

Introductory Remarks | Web Site Statistics & History
How to Cite this Site | Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Welcome to the Simeon Solomon Research Archive, a repository of information by and about the Victorian artist Simeon Solomon (1840-1905).

The purpose of this web site is to encourage research on the work of Solomon, who until recently was still an obscure artist known only to those interested in Pre-Raphaelitism. Over the past twenty-five years increased interest in the Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes, Judaic Studies, and Gender/Gay/Queer Studies has generated a resurgence of information on Solomon and his work. It seems that more criticism has been published about him in the past twenty years than had been published in the fifty years prior.

This web site provides the researcher with a variety of information. As of the initial date of this project, this web site holds information on primary and secondary source material on Solomon. The information presented here comes from my annotated bibliography on Solomon published in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies.

Some of the citations here include annotations and/or the full-text of the original source document. The citations are written in MLA format and are arranged by publication date and then alphabetically by author. In cases where the specific date of a publication could not be determined, then entries for that year revert to alphabetical arrangement. Over time this web site will continuously be updated and will eventually include digital images of works by Solomon. If you know of new information that has been published on Simeon Solomon but has not been included here, please contact me. I can best be reached by email at roberto@simeonsolomon.org.

WEB SITE STATISTICS & HISTORY

Statistics (as of September 4, 2007)
  • 52 web pages
  • 181 citations, 136 with annotations (only 89 appeared in print version)
  • 33 citations for Rebecca Solomon's web page
  • 38 full-text documents in HTML
  • 3 full-text documents in PDF
  • 38 digital images
  • 59 links to external images
  • 9,481 visitors to web site on the original server from November 21, 2001 through September 5, 2005

    September 2007 Update

  • 14 NEW secondary sources were added, including 2 related to Rebecca Solomon.
  • 3 new images of works were added: 2 by Simeon Solomon (Three Priests and Sleep), and 1 of an engraving after a painting by Rebecca Solomon (Spending a Sou).
  • 4 full-text pages to reviews from the Art Journal and the Illustrated London News were added, and 1 link to a full-text review outside the SSRA was added.
  • Some annotations were updated with new information.
  • A new beige background color was chosen for the site.
  • Image links that were broken were removed and new links to images added.
  • The "Internet Resources" web page was removed. However, the most relevant web sites were integrated into the rest of the Secondary Sources pages.

    November 2005 Update

  • Information about the Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition was added to the home page, with a link to purchase the book from the publisher.
  • The timeline was replaced with a new biographical essay.
  • 10 new links to images of works by Solomon were added to the images web page.

    September 5, 2005 Update

  • The SSRA was given a new home at http://www.simeonsolomon.org, thanks to the assistance of Julia Kerr, producer of the magnificent http://www.artmagick.com web site. In commemoration of the new address, a new orchid background color was given to all of the pages.
  • 34 NEW citations have been added, including works published over the past three years.
  • 20 NEW full-text HTML documents have been added. These include early reviews of Simeon's exhibited works at the Royal Academy and Dudley Gallery published in The Art-Journal and Swinburne's poem "Erotion", which was inspired by Solomon's painting Damon and Aglae.
  • A new web page with 31 citations of information on Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886), Simeon Solomon's sister, was created.

    April 15, 2003 Update

  • 20 new digital images were added to the web site with the permission of the owners of the images.
  • The Biographical Timeline has been updated with new and corrected information.
  • The pages on Solomon's art were removed because of outdated information, but those pages with images or links to images were consolidated into a new Art by Solomon web page.
  • All "NEW" tags were removed. The bibliography of secondary works, while still available online, will no longer be updated but may appear in a different version in the future.

    April 1, 2002 Update

  • The SSRA has received the first ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Electronic Publication Award for outstanding electronic publication. Please visit the sponsors of this award, ARLIS/NA and Worldwide Books.
  • The section on Solomon's art has been fully enhanced with new pages broken out for his 96 paintings, 135 drawings, and 47 illustrations.
  • 12 new digital images from Solomon's illustrations to Good Times, Once a Week, and Leisure Hour are reproduced here. My thanks once again to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth for their permission to make these images available. Additional links have been provided for art by Solomon on the Internet.
  • The transcribed Foreword to Vision published by Thomas B. Mosher in 1909 is now available.
  • 2 "NEW" annotations or updated annotations.

    December 1, 2001 Update

  • Three digital images of paintings by Solomon have been added. Permission to make these images available on the SSRA was granted by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Two of these works, Portrait of an Italian Youth (1869) and Love Dreaming by the Sea (1871), are well known and have been reproduced elsewhere, but the third work, the painting Noon (ca. 1865), is being reproduced and made available for the first time on this web site.
  • Three PDF files of secondary source material on Solomon have been added. These three works are from the Jewish Chronicle (1862), Temple (1897), and Binyon (1933).
  • One transcribed full-text document taken from the Illustrated London News (1905) has been added.
  • Over the first year, NEW tags were used to identify works that did not appear in the print bibliography. These tags have been replaced by ยง tags, and the NEW tags now represent additions to the web site since the last update.
  • Thanks to technical support from FAU, a counter has been added to the home page.

    August 2001 changes
    New sources were annotated and added, including links to web sites on Solomon's colleagues and friends. The color of the background was changed from green to beige/peach because some people complained that it was difficult to read.

    HOW TO CITE THIS SITE

    Always cite your sources!

    Until the September 1, 2007 update, I had provided a citation guide using the MLA format. However, as resources on the Internet and World Wide Web have continued to develop, each of the various style guides (MLA, Turabian, APA, etc.) have all evolved.

    The information below, based on an older edition of MLA, is an example of what should be captured when citing the entire web site or a specific page. This includes not only the author and title, but also the URL and date visited. Please consult the most up-to-date edition of the style guide you are required to use to ensure that you are citing correctly the Simeon Solomon Research Archive.

  • If you are citing the entire web site:
    Ferrari, Roberto C. Simeon Solomon Research Archive. Internet. Published 20 September 2000. Accessed [insert date]. Available: http://www.fau.edu/solomon/.
  • If you are citing one page from this web site:
    Ferrari, Roberto C. "Secondary Sources: 1860-1905." Simeon Solomon Research Archive. Internet. Published 20 September 2000. Accessed [insert date]. Available: http://www.fau.edu/solomon/cites1.html.
  • If you are citing a full-text document reproduced on this web site:
    [EXAMPLE FROM AN ARTICLE]
    Ross, Robert. "A Note on Simeon Solomon." Westminster Gazette 24 August 1905: 1-2. Internet. Simeon Solomon Research Archive by Roberto C. Ferrari. Published 20 September 2000. Accessed [insert date]. Available: http://www.fau.edu/solomon/ross1.html.
    [EXAMPLE FROM A BOOK]
    Binyon, Laurence. English Water-Colours. London: A. & C. Black, 1933, 186. Internet. Simeon Solomon Research Archive by Roberto C. Ferrari. Published 20 September 2000. Accessed [insert date]. Available: http://www.fau.edu/solomon/binyon.html.

    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    I must acknowledge individuals and libraries without whom the initial print bibliographic study on Solomon would never have been published.

    Ilene Frank, William E. Fredeman, Brian Frisina, Jacob Hand, Julia Kerr, Steven Kolsteren, Lionel Lambourne, Mark Samuels Lasner, David Latham, Linda McKee, Karen McKenzie, Nick Melczarek, Robert Meyrick, Thais Morgan, Michelle Persell, Daniel Rutenberg, Gayle Marie Seymour, Nancy Tyson, Stacey Van Hoy, the Ben Uri Art Gallery, the Archives and Rare Books Department of the University of Cincinnati, Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library interlibrary loan department, University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library interlibrary loan department, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the National Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

    Special thanks to Tony Parrish and Arlene Rinaldi, former FAU Webmasters, for helping me set up the initial web site and the counter, and the FAU S. E. Wimberly Library for supporting and sponsoring this web site for five years. I'd especially like to thank Nancine Thompson on the library staff for assisting me with digitization.

    My thanks again to Julia Kerr of http://www.artmagick.com for hosting the Simeon Solomon Research Archive and for all of her assistance with the site. My thanks also to Paul A. Ranogajec for his HTML assistance in the 2007 update of the web site.

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    This web site was created by Roberto C. Ferrari and is therefore copyrighted by law. All digital images were reproduced with the permission of the owners; distribution rights for these works rests with the individuals who own the original work of art. All secondary source material reproduced here is protected by copyright with the author or publisher of the original source. The only exception to this rule are the items made available that are in the public domain. The rules of fair use apply if you wish to use any information from this site for non-profit educational purposes. If you have any questions, please contact the author of this web site.