Description: Andromeda rests across Perseus who is seated and holding the Medusa's head aloft
in his right hand while Andromeda gazes upon the image of the head reflected in a fountain
at their feet.
Aspecta Medusa
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1867 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pencil
Dimensions: unknown
Production Description
Production Date: 1867 (circa)
Provenance
Current Location: unknown
Archival History: WMR; Signora Olivia Agresti 1958 (circa)
Reproductions
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Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 109.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s183b.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the most finished of the sketches DGR made for the oil painting he planned to paint for C. P. Mathews. It is a study for the composition of the work.
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