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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

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) 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 - Ink
 

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
 
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.
 
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

Associated people

Name Type
Elizabeth Siddal Artist's model

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