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The Parable of the Vineyard: Judgment and Condemnation by the Lord of the Vineyard

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1861

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink and ink wash, laid down

Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 23 in.

Signature: monogram

Note: Monogram located at the lower left.

Production Description

Production Date: 1861

Exhibition History: Beaux Arts Gallery, Drawings and Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 1940 (no.24); Bournemouth, 1951 (no.89); Victoria and Albert Museum, The Firm of Morris & Co. , 1961 (no.3)

Intended Context: Design for stained glass for an east window in St. Martin's Church, Scarborough.

Model: William Morris

Note: The heads of Swinburne, Morris, and Gambart are amongst those of the men being led away.

Model: Algernon Swinburne

Model: Ernest Gambart

Provenance

Current Location: William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

Catalog Number: A 269

Archival History: Mr. Johnson of Manchester; T. H. McConnell; Frederick Leyland; Kerrison Preston; Sold at Christie's on March 2, 1956 (lot 44); William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 113.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 83-84 (no. 139).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 208.

Included Text

‘He will miserably destroy those wicked men.’

Note: Inscribed directly beneath the drawing.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 208.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s139.rap.xml