Man and Woman standing under a Tree
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1847
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
340 x 160 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287131
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on paper, Man and Woman standing under a Tree by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1847. The man facing to the front wears a plumed hat and a tunic. He is looking down at the flower held in the woman's hands. She is shown in profile looking left. Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/245-D/247.
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
Dec/47 (written in pencil 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. 662