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Louisa Ruth Herbert
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1858
Physical Description
Medium: pencil
Dimensions: oval, 13 x 10 in.
Other production information determined from the object: Inscribed along the right side of the picture: “Ruth Herbert 1858 GDR delt.”
Production Description
Production Date: 1858
Model: Louisa Ruth Herbert Crabbe
Note: Surtees offers the following biographical gloss: “Daughter
of a West Country brass-founder, she married Edward Crabb in 1855 (she
assumed the final E at a later date); her stage name, Miss Herbert, by which
she was more generally known, has been retained throughout. Her Christian
names were divided between the stage and the artist's studio; in the
playbills of the period she invariably appears as Louisa Herbert, while Ruth
was the name commonly used by Rossetti” (Surtees,
A
Catalogue Raisonné
, vol. 1, 166-67 (no. 325)).
Provenance
Current Location: Mrs. David K.E. Bruce
Archival History: Ruth Herbert; bequeathed to her son, Major A.B. Crabbe in 1921; sold at Christie's February 17, 1922 (lot 20) for £39. 18
s; purchased by Ruth Herbert's daughter, Lady Surtees; bequeathed in 1948 to the sitter's great-granddaughter, Mrs. David K.E.
Bruce
Reproductions
-
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 403.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s325.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
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