The Blessed Damozel (unfinished sketch of lovers embracing)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1876 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pencil and brown chalk
Dimensions: 9 x 11in.
Note: Surtees attests that Lady Amy Coats has inscribed a label on the back of the painting (a copy of the original label) that
reads: “Original drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Study for Frontispiece to
Early Italian Poets or
Dante and his Circle [
sic]. Given by him to Aldernon Charles Swinburne. Given to me by Alice and Isabel Swinburne in memory of Charlotte Jane Swinburne
OBIT 1899 W. S.”
Production Description
Production Date: 1876 (circa)
Exhibition History: Leicester Galleries,
The Victorian Romantics, 1949 (no.32)
Provenance
Current Location: Lady Amy Coats
Archival History: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Alice and Isabel Swinburne; Unidentified collector “W.S.;” Leicester Galleries; Lady Amy Coats
Reproductions
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Delaware Art Museum
print.
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Benedetti,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 322.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
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