Mnemosyne

Alternately titled: Lamp of Memory
Alternately titled: Ricordanza

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1876

Physical Description

Medium: coloured chalks
Dimensions: 22 x 17 3/4 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1876
Exhibition History: New Gallery, 1897 (no.6)

Provenance

Current Location: unknown
Archival History: Formed part of the Rossetti sale (lot 45) and described as "Study for the Head, 1876"; Agnew bought the work for £63; W.A. Turner; purchased by Lord Battersea at Christie's Turner sale, April 28, 1888, (lot 95) for £42; R.E.A. Wilson purchased work (lot 34) at the Christie's Lady Battersea sale, March 15, 1935, for £33. 16 s; present whereabouts unknown

Scholarly Commentary

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Bibliography

Reproductions

  1. image

    Carrington, Pictures and Poems.
  2. image

    Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate xvi.
  3. image

    Hollyer print, Delaware Art Museum.
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    Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 345.
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