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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1877

Physical Description

Medium: pastel

Dimensions: 35 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1877

Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower center.

Production Description

Production Date: 1877

Exhibition History: Tokyo, DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, 1990 (no.83)

Patron: T. Watts-Dunton

Date Commissioned: 1877

Note: Surtees asserts that the model is the same in this image as in The Spirit of the Rainbow and possibly for The Dulcimer as well.

Provenance

Current Location: Robert S. Walker

Archival History: T. Watts-Dunton; Sotheby's sale March 22, 1939 (lot 64); G. T. Nicholson; W. R. Rees–Davies; Sotheby's sale November 20, 1969 (lot 190); Robert S. Walker

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 323.
DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, Tokyo 1990, 132 (plate 83).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné. , vol.1, 145 (no. 247).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné. , vol.2, plate 370.

Reproductions

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 324.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 370.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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