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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.749
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
1865
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297647

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 42.8 x 34.8 cm (16 7/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: monogram / 1865

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 369

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.749
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. 71
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 369
  • 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
  • Theresa Byington, "A Technical Study of Five Oil Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1987), Unpublished, passim
  • 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
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/03/2016 - 11/16/2016

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