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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.747
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Portrait Head of Jane Morris
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait Head of Mrs. William Morris
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1865 - 1870
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297577

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 37.5 x 34.8 cm (14 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: monogram / 1861

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 371

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.747
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 67
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 371
  • Virginia Surtees, "'Portrait Head of Jane Morris' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti", Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (June 1977), 73, no. 317, pp. 12-17, p. 16 note 3
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), p. 415

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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