Childe Waters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1846
Materials
Pen and wash on paper
Measurements
270 x 185 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287133
Summary
Pen and wash drawing on paper, Childe Waters by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1846. It shows a couple embracing. The man on the left, the woman on the right. On the left, faintly sketched, on a smaller scale, a man and woman stand in profile to the left. On the reverse there is a study in pencil of the female figure. Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/249-D/250.
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.
Makers and roles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), publisher
References
Surtees 1971 Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882). A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford 1971, no. 27A