Portrait of Fanny Cornforth
1862 – 1865
Accession number: 1904P267
Pen and brown ink on paper.
Width: 105 mm
Height: 133 mm
Information
This drawing dates from the period of the painting of 'The Blue Bower'. It shows Rossetti's attraction for a type of strong, physical female beauty.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | - |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons | p.353. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 298, p. 162. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 3A4. |
Provenance
| Fanny Cornforth, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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