Description: “Head three-quarters to left, wearing side-wiskers. Collar and cravat indicated” (see Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné
, vol. 1, 172).
Copyright: ©National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
“Italian artist and political refugee, a friend of Gabriele Rossetti, living at Boulogne. As a boy the young Rossetti twice stayed with him, and again in 1860 with his wife during their honeymoon, when this drawing was made” (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 172 (no. 349)).
Bibliography