Young Men playing Chess (recto); Studies for Young Men playing Chess (verso)
attributed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
185 x 230 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287142
Summary
Pencil drawing on paper, Young Men playing Chess (recto); Studies for Young Men playing Chess (verso), attributed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882). Unframed, shares cream card mount with WIG/D/258/L.
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
G.Romilly and J.Doughty (verso inscribed)
Makers and roles
attributed to 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. 639