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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.89
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Portrait of Fanny Cornforth
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Head of a Woman (Mrs. William Michael Rossetti?)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1874
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298503

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalks on cream board
Dimensions
73.4 x 63.3 cm (28 7/8 x 24 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., brown chalk: monogram, 1874
  • inscription: verso: None

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1941

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 569

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.89
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. 79
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 569
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 442, repr. p. 312 (as Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti)
  • Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson, Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle, Chatto & Windus (London, England, 1991), fig. 140
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 442, repr. p. 312
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker, "A Short Note on the Recent Identification of a Pastel of Fanny Cornforth", The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society (Autumn 2002), X, no. 3, pp. 2-7
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker, Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth, Lulu Publishing (2006), p. 134
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker, Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth, 2nd Ed., CreateSpace.com (2011), pp. 127, 244, reproduced p. 127

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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