Turk with scimitar

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1842 (circa)

Bibliography

◦ Fredeman, Correspondence, 42.1.

◦ Fredeman, A Rossetti Cabinet, 15 (plate 103d).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

In February of 1842, DGR sent twelve drawings to his aunt Charlotte Polidori for a bazaar. Among them was the drawing of a Turk, of which this may be a copy. Other submissions included a dandy and various characters from the novel Barnaby Rudge.

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