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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1921.17
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Study for The Question (The Sphinx); verso: Study for "Astarte Syriaca"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1875
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298629

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
40.1 x 35.2 cm (15 13/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: monogram, 1875

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 241A

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ellen Bullard
Accession Year
1921
Object Number
1921.17
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. 81
  • Carl A. Peterson, Rossetti and the Sphinx, Apollo (January 1967), vol. 85, pp. 48-53, p. 48, repr. as fig. 1
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 241A, pl. 351
  • Dr. Maryan W. Ainsworth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Double Work of Art, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 1976), p. 114, no. 64, repr.
  • Stephen Wildman, Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England, exh. cat., Art Services International (Alexandria, VA, 1995), fig. 89, under no. 102

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • The Victorian Rebellion, Lakeview Center for Arts and Sciences, 09/13/1971 - 10/29/1971
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Double Work of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, 09/23/1976 - 11/14/1976

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