The Children in the Wood
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1846
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
2150 x 180 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287129
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, The Children in the Wood by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1846. Two children huddle together on the ground. Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/241-D/243.
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
The Children in the Wood (written in ink bottom right)
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. 24