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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.743
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Beata Beatrix
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1869
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297995

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red, brown, and white chalks on cream paper
Dimensions
sight: 84.1 x 64.8 cm (33 1/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
frame: 103.5 × 85.1 cm (40 3/4 × 33 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lr: DGR in monogram, 1869
  • inscription: ul: BEATA BEATRIX
    ul: Quomodo sedet sola civital plena populo

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Graham. Robert Harrison, Shiplake near Henley, England. [Scott & Fowles, New York, NY], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, November 1924, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 168 R.2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.743
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), p. 128, no. 217
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 74, repr.
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 168 R.1
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 328, repr. p. 278
  • Stephen Wildman, Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England, exh. cat., Art Services International (Alexandria, VA, 1995), under no. 104
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 328, repr. p. 278
  • Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Graham: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector", The Sixty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society, The Walpole Society (Leeds, 2000), pp. 145-343, a3 (p. 282), fig. 95, Letters A1(?), A61, p. 158
  • 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), p. 55, fig. 6
  • Christiana Payne, Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours, exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 2021), p. 40

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/26/2010 - 01/08/2011

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