1943.748: Study for "Dante's Dream": Head of Alexa Wilding

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.748

People

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)

Title

Study for "Dante's Dream": Head of Alexa Wilding

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1870

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297955

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown, red and white chalk on blue-green wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 46.8 x 39.1 cm (18 7/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
frame: 62.2 × 54.6 cm (24 1/2 × 21 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l: initials and monogram, 1870

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Surtees 81 R.1.G

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.748

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. 76, repr.
• 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.G, pl. 99
• Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 384, repr. p. 294
• Corrado Gizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, 1984), no. 33, repr. pp. 148, 175
• Mary Bennett, Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation (London, 1988), p. 175, repr. p. 176 as fig. 79
• Paul Spencer-Longhurst, "Works on Paper by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their Contemporaries Recently Donated to Wightwick Manor", The Burlington Magazine (April 2011), CLIII, no. 1297, pp. 232-240, p. 236
• British and Irish Art, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, November 13, 2012), under lot 7

Exhibition History

• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946

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