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La Ghirlandata

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1873

Physical Description

Medium: coloured chalks

Dimensions: 36 x 30 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1873

Note: Monogram and date are in the lower left corner.

Production Description

Production Date: 1873

Exhibition History: Agnew, French & English Drawings, 19th and 20th Centuries , June 1968 (no. 87); Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters (Royal Academy, 2003)

Provenance

Current Location: Collection of Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Note: DGR gave the picture to Charles Augustus Howell in payment for a 70 pound bill he owed.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This finished chalk drawing was the study for the oil painting DGR executed for William Graham.

Bibliography

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , facing 172.
Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 130-131 (no. 232a).
Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné , Vol. 2, plate 333.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , [29], plate V.
Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours [Sotheby's London, 8-9 June 1993]

Reproductions

Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 333.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , facing 172.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate V.
Delaware Art Museum print, Samuel Bancroft Collection.
Delaware Art Museum print, Samuel Bancroft Collection.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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