Regina Cordium Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Johannesburg Art Gallery Regina Cordium DGR 1860 New Gallery, 1897 (no.61); R.A., 1973 (no.300); Tate, 1984 (no.114) Johannesburg Art Gallery According to Surtees, if this is the original version, the provenance is as follows: John Ruskin; Arthur Severn; Bought by Sigismund Neumann in London and given to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1912. But this picture seems to have been first owned by John Miller, who may even have commissioned it (see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 62. 17.). oil on panel 10 x 8 in. Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 35. Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 187. Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 108a recto. Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of DGR , 20. Elizabeth Siddal <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p>“According to <xref doc="a.nd497.r8.m33.rad">Marillier</xref> ‘more than one’ replica was made of this picture, but so far as can be ascertained this is the original. It is the portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, executed a few months after she became Rossetti's wife” (Surtees, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="75" workcode="s120">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , vol. 1, 75 (no. 120)). The different accounts of the work's provenance are probably explained by the multiple copies of the picture.

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Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 35. Gowans and Gray, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of DGR</hi> , 20. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 107. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 75 (no. 120). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 187. Surtees, <hi rend="i">Diaries of George Price Boyce</hi> , 31.

Regina Cordium

The title is inscribed on a trompe l'oeil plate at the bottom center.