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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.98
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Portrait of Eliza Polidori
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1858
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/71756

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on beige wove paper
Dimensions
22.5 x 18.2 cm (8 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: DGR [monogram] / 1858
  • gallery label: formerly back of frame, printed, typed: printed: JS Maas & Co Ltd dealers in fine art / 15a Clifford Street, New Bond Street, London W1: Telephone: REGENT 2302; typed: Pre-Raphaelites and Contemporaries. / 1961. No. 77.; cutting from catalogue, pasted onto label: 77 Portrait head of Rossetti's aunt, pencil with monogram / and dated 1858, 9 x 7 ins. / Rossetti's aunt went to the Crimea with Florence / Nightingale.
  • label: formerly back of frame, printed: Portrait of Eliza Polidori, the artist's aunt. / She was the sister of / John William Polidori, / Byron's doctor who was the author of / 'The Vampyre' which he wrote in the / company of Byron and Mary Shelley. / Elisa [sic] went as a nurse with / Florence Nightingale to the Crimea in 1854.
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper right, graphite: Cat No 144[cut off?] / W354 [or W554]
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower center, graphite: D2016 / D. G. Rossetti 1828-1882 / 1858

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1950.
L.G. Duke.
J. S. Maas & Co., London, 1961.
Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York.
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, sold at auction, 1979. Sale, June 5-9, 1979, lot 645, repr.
MacMillan & Perrin Gallery, Toronto, 1980.
Christopher Powney, Isle of Wight, UK, sold to Fogg Art Museum, 2004.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 411

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.98
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mahonri Sharp Young, "Letter from New York: Artists and Writers", Apollo (June 1971), XCIII, no. 112 (n.s.), pp. 513-518, p. 514, fig. 3
  • Felice Stampfle and Cara Dufour, Artists and Writers: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Portrait Drawings from the Collection of Benjamin Sonnenberg, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 1971), cat. no. 8, repr.
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), cat. no. 411
  • Victorian Romantics, auct. cat., MacMillan & Perrin Gallery (Toronto, 1979), no. 17, repr.
  • Fine 19th & 20th Century British Drawings & Watercolours, auct. cat., MacMillan & Perrin Gallery (Toronto, 1980), no. 14, repr.
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 124, repr. p. 210
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 124, repr. p. 210
  • Angela Thirlwell, William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2003), p. 223, fig. 106

Exhibition History

  • Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries, Maas Gallery Ltd., London, 01/01/1961 - 12/31/1961
  • Artists and Writers: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Portrait Drawings from the Collection of Benjamin Sonnenberg, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 05/13/1971 - 07/30/1971
  • Victorian Romantics, MacMillan & Perrin Gallery, Toronto, 09/01/1979 - 12/01/1979
  • Fine 19th & 20th Century British Drawings and Watercolours, MacMillan & Perrin Gallery, Toronto, 11/01/1980 - 12/13/1980

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