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The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1857

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 13 1/2

Signature: monogram

Note: The monogram is inscribed at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1857

Exhibition History: Liverpool Academy 1858 (no.297); R.A., 1883; Birmingham 1947 (no.107); Newcastle 1971 (no.30); Paris 1972 (no.235); R.A. 1973 (no.147); Baden–Baden 1973-74 (no.106); Tate 1984 (no.221)

Patron: T. E. Plint

Date Commissioned: 1857

Original Cost: 55 guineas

Provenance

Current Location: Tate Gallery

Catalog Number: 3058

Archival History: T.E. Pint; Christie's sale March 7, 1862 (lot 164), £40. 19 s.; George Rae; Tate Gallery 1916

Scholarly Commentary

Production History

DGR did a pencil sketch for the finished watercolour in which the man and woman are in nineteenth–century dress.

Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 104.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial ,50, 81-82b recto, 104.
The Studio , 3.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 55 (no. 97).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 132.

Reproductions

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 104.
The Studio , facing page 3.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 132.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 82b recto.
Delaware Art Museum print.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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