Astarte Syriaca - Figure Study
1875
Accession number: 1904P398
Pen and brown ink over pencil on blue-grey paper from notebook.
Width: 181 mm
Height: 239 mm
Information
An early sketch for the 1877 oil painting Astarte Syriaca now at Manchester City Art Gallery. The sketch is from one of the artist's notebooks and uses Jane Morris as the model.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | - |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | |||
| 29 | west surrey 1981 | - - - | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| 82a | Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy | 1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31 | |
| 82a | Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan | 1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13 | |
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. 339. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 249B, p. 146-47; vol. 2, pl. 375. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 1G10. |
| Christie's Sale Catalogue, 12 June, 2002 | |||
| 2002 | Christie's, London | pp. 91-94. | |
Provenance
| Rossetti Sale (lot 79) £5.15.6d; H Virtue Tebbs; Charles Fairfax Murray |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Jane Morris | - |
Related work & resources
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Reflections on Jane MorrisCreated by Jane Morris
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