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The female depicted in this work resembles Elizabeth Siddal.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
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Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Notes |
Purchased for Mr Butler at the sale of / the artist's drawings / Wm Rossetti thought this a design for / "Hamlet & Ophelia" or for The Rose / Garden. It seems to me equally / possible ['likely' crossed out] that it represents "Launcelot / & Guenevere", The Rose Garden I should / exclude altogether, / Charles Fairfax Murray; DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI / ONE OF TWO DESIGNS / SOLD AT CHRISTIE'S MAY 12 1883 / CATALOGUE No 61; The 2nd design a very rude / sketch of little value having no / connection it seems to me with the design for / "Found" moreover it was certainly / taken from one of his late notebooks / in which he noted down various plans / for pictures & anything that occurred / to him at the moment. |
Notes |
reverse |
Handwritten |
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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, Ltd., Derby |
p. 353 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol. 1, no. 725, pp. 228-29. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 3E7. |
Provenance
Rossetti Sale, 1883 (lot 61); Charles Fairfax Murray |
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