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The Passover in the Holy Family: Eating of the Passover

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1854 (circa)

Physical Description

Medium: black chalk, ink, and wash

Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1854 (circa)

Provenance

Current Location: Lionel Lambourne

Purchase Price: £10

Archival History: Sir Henry Acland, Bart.; Sotheby's sale October 5, 1943 (lot 23), £11. 10 s.; R. E. A. Wilson; Portobello Road sale November 1967, £10; Lionel Lambourne

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of two designs for the watercolour of The Passover in the Holy Family. Surtees writes that this design was "discarded by Ruskin" in favor of the other design (41)

Bibliography

DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, Tokyo 1990, 161 (plate 120).
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 66-[68a recto].
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 41 (no. 78B).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, no. 85.

Included Text

A Passover in the households of Joseph and Zacharias.

Note: This identification is inscribed along the foot of the drawing.

Reproductions

DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, plate 120.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 85
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , [68a recto].

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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