Back View of Man and Woman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1844
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
160 x 100 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287118
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, Back View of Man and Woman by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1844. The man, who is on the left, is looking at the woman. Her head is thrown back and her arms stretched across his neck. 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
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. 616 Jacobi and Finch 2023: Carol Jacobi and James Finch (eds.), The Rosettis, exh.cat. Tate Britain, London and Delaware Art Museum, 2023, no. 21, p. 29.