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Elizabeth Siddal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1854

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 7 in. (oval)
Date on Image: 1854
Note: The date is inscribed at right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1854
Exhibition History: Manchester 1911 (no.160); Tate 1923 (no.110); Beaux Arts Gallery, Drawings and Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1940 (no.26); Whitechapel 1948 (no.67); Ashmolean Museum, Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 1991 (no.6)
Model: Elizabeth Siddal

Provenance

Current Location: Private collection
Archival History: James Siddal; WMR; Sir Sydney Cockerell; Mrs. Virginia Surtees

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Commentary is not yet available for this image.

Bibliography

  • Peattie, “William Michael Rossetti and the Siddals,” JPRAS 2:1 (1989): 22, 26.
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 190 (no. 462).
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, plate 422.
  • Surtees, Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 22, plate 6.
Description: The head and shoulders of Elizabeth Siddal are presented turned to the left on an emerald–green ground, with the head in profile and eyes cast down. Her copper–red hair is drawn down smoothly over the ears, and she wears a lilac dress.

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 22, plate 6.
  2. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, plate 422.
  3. image

    Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 181.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s462.rap.xml