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Resolution; or The Infant Hercules

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1869 August 14

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink

Dimensions: 8 x 5 1/4 in.

Date on Image: 14.8.69

Note: Surtees asserts that Steele inscribed the date.

Production Description

Production Date: 1869 August 14

Model: William Morris

Provenance

Current Location: British Museum

Catalog Number: 1939-5-13-1.(8.)

Purchase Price: gift

Archival History: Jane Burden Morris. May Morris gave the item to Dr. Robert Steele.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This drawing accompanied a letter sent to Jane Morris in August of 1869 while she was undergoing treatments at the spa of Bad Ems in Prussia (now Germany).

Bibliography

Fredeman, Correspondence, 69.123.
Marsh, The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, 260-61.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 210-11 (no. 604).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 438.

Included Text

Resolution; or The Infant Hercules

Note: This title was inscribed by DGR below the image.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 438.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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