The Story of St. George and the Dragon: St. George and the Dragon

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861-1862

Bibliography

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 86 (no. 148).

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, plate 215.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of six designs that DGR executed in 1861-62 for a set of stained glass windows that were made by the Morris Firm. The windows are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the designs, including this one, are in the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.

DGR made an alternative design for this event in the series. The drawing is in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Surtees surmises that it may be an earlier design, possibly executed as early as 1858. In 1863 DGR made a watercolour replica that is now at the Ashmolean.

See the commentary for The Story of St. George and the Dragon: the Skulls Brought to the King.

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