Subject: Illustration to the ballad by Longfellow.
Copyright: ©Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Skeleton in Armour
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1857-58 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink
Technique: pen, India ink and wash on pale buff paper
Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.
Signature: DGR
Other production information determined from the object: An illegible line is written in pencil above the waves and ship.
Note: Initials on lower left.
Production Description
Production Date: 1857-58 (circa)
Exhibition History: Hampshire House Social Club, Hammersmith, 1909 (no.177), but titled
Sir Patrick Spens
Provenance
Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalog Number: 1427
Archival History: Mrs. Thomas Ayres; Sir Sydney Cockerell; Fairfax Murray; then sold to J. R.
Holliday; J. R. Holliday Bequest (1927)
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 150.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s103.rap.xml
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