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Pippa Passes

Alternately titled: Pippa Passing the Loose Women

Elizabeth Siddal

1854

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: unknown

Production Description

Production Date: 1854

Provenance

Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Scholarly Commentary

Literary

This scene is based on several lines from Robert Browning's poetic drama, Pippa Passes, in which the virginal heroine encounters a group of prostitutes discussing their lovers.

Bibliography

  • Barringer, The Pre–Raphaelites, 144.
  • Hill, Letters of DGR to William Allingham, 161.
  • Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 34.
  • Marsh, Pre–Raphaelite Sisterhood, 71.
Pippa Passes
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