Copyright: ©Courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice
Alternately titled: Dante drawing an angel
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1853
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 24 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1853
Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.
Production Description
Production Date: 1853
Exhibition History:
Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, 1857 (no.55);
R.A., 1883 (no.362); R.A.,
British Art, 1934 (no.843); Arts Council 1953
(no.43); Tate 1984 (no.197)
Model: Elizabeth Siddal
Note: Siddal sat for the head of the young woman.
Model: Williams
Note: Williams sat for the elderly gentleman.
Model: WMR
Note: WMR may have sat for the head of Dante.
Provenance
Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Purchase Price: bequest
Archival History: Francis MacCracken; Christie's sale March 31, 1855 (lot 84), £52.
10
s.; Thomas Combe
Reproductions
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Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 17. -
Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 34a. -
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 36. -
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné vol. 2, plate 51. -
Phythian, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , 26. -
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 3. -
Delaware Art Museum Mansell print. -
Delaware Art Museum print.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s58.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Pictorial
Eriko Yamaguchi has identified a pictorial source for this work in Camille Bonnard's Costumes Historiques (1829). The costume of religious figure on the left was designed after Paul Mercuri's illustration of a fifteenth-century Podestat .
Bibliography