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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.741
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Study for Predella No. 1, for "Dante's Dream": Dante Dreaming
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1879
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297815

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, charcoal, and touches of red chalk on green wove paper
Dimensions
43.7 x 100.9 cm (17 3/16 x 39 3/4 in.)
framed: 69 × 123.5 cm (27 3/16 × 48 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.l.: DGR / 1879

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 81 R.2.A

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.741
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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), pp. 168, 169, no. 293 (note)
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 87
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 81 R.2.A, pl. 105
  • Marina Henderson, D. G. Rossetti, Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press (London, England and New York, NY, 1973), repr. p. 32
  • John Bryson and Janet Camp Troxell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris, Their Correspondence, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1976), pp. 94, 95, 103, 104, 107, 108, repr. p. 94
  • Corrado Gizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, 1984), no. 36, repr. pp. 149, 176
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 539, repr. p. 342
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 539, repr. p. 342
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 33-1, repr. (color)
  • Anne Anderson, "'I thank you so much for thinking me still worthy of making so lovely a present to': Gifts from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Jane Morris", The Journal of William Morris Studies (2015), XXI, no. 3, pp. 4-21, pp. 4, 17

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/21/2017 - 11/01/2017

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