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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1855

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1855
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.13); Birmingham 1947 (no.101); Whitechapel 1948 (no.66); Leicester 1968 (no.36); Paris 1972 (no.228); R.A., 1973 (no.94); Rotterdam–Paris 1976 (no.200); Tate 1984 (no.215); Torre de' Passeri (Pescara) 1984
Patron: Ellen Heaton
Date Commissioned: 1855
Original Cost: 35 guineas

Provenance

Current Location: Tate Gallery
Catalog Number: 3056
Archival History: John Ruskin; William Morris; George Rae; Tate Gallery 1916

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

See commentary for the double work, Francesca da Rimini .

Bibliography

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Copyright: ©Tate Gallery, London 2001

Included Text

‘Quanti dolci pensier Quanto disio’
Note: This quotation is inscribed along the bottom of the left panel.
‘O lasso!’
Note: This quotation is inscribed between the heads of Virgil and Dante at the top of the central panel.
‘Menó costoro al doloroso passo’
Note: This quotation is inscribed along the bottom of the right panel.

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 87.
  2. image

    Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 59.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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