The Prince's Progress - Design for the Frontispiece
1865 – 1866
Accession number: 1904P430
Red chalk on tracing paper.
Width: 102 mm
Height: 155 mm
Information
A design for the frontispiece to Christina Rossetti's 'The Prince's Progress and Other Poems' (published by Macmillan and Co, 1866) which illustrates the line 'The long hours go and come and go'. Appears to be a partial tracing of no 1904P429.See object numbers 1904P406-413 and 1904P418-431 for Rossetti's other designs for 'The Prince's Progress'.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby | p. 335. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 186H, p. 110. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 2D11. |
Provenance
| Charles Howell; F R Leyland, Leyland Sale, Christie's 28 May 1892 (probably part of lot 20a); Charles Fairfax Murray. |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Christina Rossetti | Author |
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