The Shadowless Man
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1846
Materials
Pen and ink on paper
Measurements
170 x 125 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287113
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, The Shadowless Man by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), circa 1846. An illustration for A. von Chamisso's 'Peter Schlemil'. A man and a woman are shown full length, turned to the left holding hands looking to the ground.
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
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. 28; Plate 14 Jacobi and Finch 2023: Carol Jacobi and James Finch (eds.), The Rosettis, exh.cat. Tate Britain, London and Delaware Art Museum, 2023, no. 30, p. 30.