A Girl and a Demon
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1846
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
120 x 140 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287152
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, A Girl and a Demon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1846.The profile of the girl is seen on the right looking left. On the left side a demoniac head with eyes starring, hair flowing upwards and hands raised to the jaw, looks to the left. Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/266/L
Provenance
Given by the artist to Alexander Munro (Inverness 1825 – Cannes 1871); by descent to his daughter-in-law Margaret Caroline Neaves, Mrs John Arthur Ruskin Munro in 1944; by descent to his grand-daughter Mrs Katherine MacDonald, by whom placed on permanent loan 1995; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Wightwick Manor, 2017.
Makers and roles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), publisher
References
Surtees 1971 Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882). A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford 1971, no. 654