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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.105
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Head of a Woman (Study for "Roman Widow")
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1874
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298416

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalk on white paper
Dimensions
actual: 64.77 x 52.07 cm (25 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 236B

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.105
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. 80
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 236B, pl. 338
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 436, repr. p. 310
  • Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone, The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain 1860-1910, exh. cat., Flammarion (Paris, France and New York, NY, 1997), p. 67, fig. 38
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 436, repr. p. 310

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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