Woman on the Arm of a Man
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1846
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
80 x 215 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287138
Summary
Pencil drawing on paper, Woman on the Arm of a Man by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), 1846. The man on the left hand side has his right hand raised above his head, while his left hand holds his staff. The woman on the right hand side has her right arm through his left arm. Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/251-D/252.
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), artist
References
Surtees 1971 Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882). A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford 1971, no. 630