Two Female Figures with Cross and Serpent
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1846
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
255 x 185 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287112
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, Two Female Figures with Cross and Serpent by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1846. Two young women full length moving to the left; one carrying a cross and struggling with a serpent, the second figure has a young demon leaning against her chewing his tail. This is possibly an illustration to J.W.Meinhold's 'Sidonia The Sorceress'. 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 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed monogram, bottom left.
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. 22