The Bivouac after the Ball
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1845
Materials
Pen and brown ink on paper
Measurements
225 x 185 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287109
Summary
Pen and brown ink drawing on paper, The Bivouac after the Ball by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1845. A sketch of a man and woman lolling against the front door of a house on a street corner. He is smoking a long pipe, she smokes a cigarette. A group of people carouse in the background. Glazed in plain oak frame, cream card mount.
Provenance
Given by the artist to Alexander Munro (Inverness 1825 – Cannes 1871); by descent to his daughter-in-law Mrs J.A.R. Munro; by descent to Mrs Katherine Macdonald, by whom placed on permanent loan to Wightwick Manor 1995; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Wightwick Manor, 2017.
Marks and inscriptions
RA exhibition label pasted on backboard
Makers and roles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), artist
References
Surtees 1971 Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882). A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford 1971, no. 13 Jacobi and Finch 2023: Carol Jacobi and James Finch (eds.), The Rosettis, exh.cat. Tate Britain, London and Delaware Art Museum, 2023, no. 28, p. 31.