Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1852
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
210 mm (H); 150 mm (W); 420 mm (H); 360 mm (W)
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Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1287972
Summary
Pencil drawing of Christina Rossetti, three quarter length, seated slightly left, a book on her knee, her head resting on her right hand. Oval gilt mount; glazed in narrow wood frame.
Provenance
W M Rossetti, by descent to his daughter, Mrs Helen Angeli; her daughter, Imogen Dennis and by descent to her son, from whom purchased, 1997 aided by a grant from the National Art Collections Fund.
Marks and inscriptions
Oct '52 (dated right hand side)
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. 426 Owens and Tromans 2018: Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans (eds.), Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art (ex. cat.), New Haven and Londond: Yale University Press, 2018., p. 59-60