Threshing

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1862 (circa)
Subject: “A labourer wearing a large hat stands in a cornfield swinging a flail” Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, I. 88.

Bibliography

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 88 (no. 154).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

DGR did not contribute often to the Morris firm's tile designs. This design recalls the small painted panel design of Gardening that DGR made in 1861 for the Seddons cabinet, now at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The drawing for this tile is in a private collection.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: s154.raw.xml