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The Harp Player
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1857 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour heightened with body colour
Dimensions: 13 x 10 in.
Signature: monogram
Note: Monogram is inscribed at lower left.
Production Description
Production Date: 1857 (circa)
Original Cost: 25 pounds
Model: Annie Miller
Provenance
Current Location: private collection
Archival History: W.H. Doeg 1872, £25; Mrs. A.W. Hammond Headey; Sotheby's sale March 18, 1971 (no.128); Maas Gallery; Maas Gallery sale June
1996; private collection
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa814.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR executed this drawing around 1857. Until Sotheby's offered it for sale (18 March 1971, item 128), the drawing was not publically known. W. H. Doeg originally owned the painting. He bought the picture from DGR in 1872, when the two exchanged a couple of letters, one of which was attached to the back and sold with the picture. The purchase price was £25. It afterwards came to the Maas Gallery, which sold the picture in June of 1996.