Scene from Ivanhoe
Alternately titled: The Squires
bringing to Ivanhoe the arms of the vanquished knights
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1839 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 7 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.
Note: There are two notes on the verso: one (possibly in DGR's own handwriting) giving the title of the scene, “The Squires
bringing to Ivanhoe the arms of the vanquished knights,” and an attribution by WMR, “By Gabriel c. 1839.”
Production Description
Production Date: 1839 (circa)
Provenance
Current Location: Kenneth A. Lohf
Archival History: Anthony d'Offay (1967); sold to Kingston Galleries, Somerville, Massachusetts; bought by Kenneth A. Lohf (June 1969)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sx1.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This drawing, which shows Ivanhoe resplendent in his armour before an embroidered hanging, is one of two known illustrations by DGR of Sir Walter Scott's novel. The other, catalogued in Fredeman's Rossetti Cabinet , depicts The Saracens seizing Isaac, the Jew of York, by order of Front de Boeuf .
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