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The Gate of Memory
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1857
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1864
Other production information determined from the object: Inscribed with title.
Note: Monogram in lower right corner and title in lower left corner.
Production Description
Production Date: 1857
Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.357); New Gallery, 1897 (no.30); Tate, 1923
(no.49);
Pictures collected by Yale alumni, Yale University, 1956
(no.210)
Repainting: 1864
The work was partly repainted in 1864, when the title and new date were added.
Provenance
Current Location: The Makins Collection
Catalog Number: 79789
Archival History: Ernest Gambart; Sold at the Christie's Gambart sale of April 1, 1871, as lot 196
for £32. 11
s; Rev. Moncure Daniel Conway; Humphrey Roberts; Mrs.
Alexander Constantine Ionides; Bought from Agnew by Janet Camp Troxell in 1953; The Makins Collection
Reproductions
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Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate xl. -
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 8. -
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 82. -
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 136.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
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