Surtees notes that this may be a copy of a
drawing executed by DGR at Coventry in July of 1853 (
A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 233). Rossetti enclosed it in a letter sent to Charlotte Polidori in September of 1853, perhaps as a keepsake for
her work box (Fredeman,
Correspondence, 53.50).
Scholarly Commentary
Production History
Surtees notes that this may be a copy of a drawing executed by DGR at Coventry in July of 1853 ( A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 233). Rossetti enclosed it in a letter sent to Charlotte Polidori in September of 1853, perhaps as a keepsake for her work box (Fredeman, Correspondence, 53.50).
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