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Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee (design for oil painting)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1870
Physical Description
Medium: black chalk
Dimensions: 32 x 27 1/4 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1870
Other production information determined from the object: ‘Mary Magdalene’
Note: Monogram and date in lower left corner. ‘Mary Magdalene’ is inscribed in the upper left corner.
Production Description
Production Date: 1870
Exhibition History: Rossetti Gallery (no.30); New Gallery, 1897 (no.68)
Patron: Frederick Leyland
Date Commissioned: 1870?
Provenance
Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 489'04
Archival History: Fanny Cornforth; Lord Battersea; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Reproductions
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Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate xvii. -
Hollyer print.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s109n.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This drawing is a design for an oil painting commissioned by Frederick Leyland, but never begun by DGR. The composition is identical to the pen and ink drawing of 1858, except for the absence of the fawn and background figures.
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