Harvard Art Museums > 1939.105: Head of a Woman (Study for "Roman Widow") Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Woman (Study for "Roman Widow") (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) , 1939.105,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/298416. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
