1943.740: Study for "Dante's Dream": Head of Marie Spartali (Mrs. William J. Stillman)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.740
- People
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
- Title
- Study for "Dante's Dream": Head of Marie Spartali (Mrs. William J. Stillman)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1870
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297539
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red, brown, and white chalk on blue-green wove paper
- Dimensions
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sight: 45.5 x 37.8 cm (17 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
frame: 62.9 × 54.6 cm (24 3/4 × 21 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l: DGR in monogram, 1870
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Surtees 81 R.I.J
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.740
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life, George Bell & Sons (London, 1899), p. 161, no. 239 (8)
- Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 77
- Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 81 R.1.J., pl. 100
- Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Disegni, Nuova Italia (Florence, 1982), no. 53, repr.
- Corrado Gizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, 1984), no. 34, repr. pp. 148, 175
- Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 386, pl. 55
- Mary Bennett, Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation (London, 1988), p. 175, repr. p. 176 as fig. 78
- Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 386, pl. 55, repr. p. 335
- Important British Pictures, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, July 1, 2004), under cat. no. 22
- Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art, auct. cat. (London, December 17, 2015), under lot 4
- Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 11, 2018), p. 52
Exhibition History
- Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
Verification Level
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