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La Pia De' Tolomei

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1868

Physical Description

Medium: red and white chalk

Dimensions: 18 x 4 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1868

Exhibition History: R.A., 1883, (no. 331); New Gallery, Exhibition of Fair Women, 1909, (no. 95)

Model: Alexa Wilding

Note: The head is taken from Alexa Wilding

Provenance

Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Catalog Number: 1782

Archival History: C.A. Howell (?); L.R. Valpy; sold at Valpy Sale, Christie's May 26, 1888 (no. 103), £52. 10 s; J.A. Fuller Maitland; bequeathed to present owner in 1936

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 120 (no. 207d).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, no. 302.

Included Text

RICORDITI DI ME CHI SON LA PIA

Note: Text is inscribed upon a fictive cartouche tacked to the parapet.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, no. 302.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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