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Joseph Accused before Potiphar
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1860
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 5 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.
Frame: An undated note on the back of the frame (in Rose's hand)
reads: “I bought it of Rossetti out of a folio in his
studio at 3 o'clock in the morning and I gave him £15 for
it.”
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1860
Note: Monogram and date on lower left-hand corner.
Production Description
Production Date: 1860
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (not in catalogue); Tate, 1911 (no.1)
Provenance
Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 405'04
Archival History: J. Anderson Rose; Rose Sale at Christie's on May 5,
1891 (lot 5a, wrongly described as an etching); passed, and sold later; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 194. -
Hollyer print, Delaware Art Museum
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s122.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The verso of this drawing has a meticulous “Egyptian” design for a sofa that was built by the Morris firm and exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition. The sofa in the background of the Potiphar drawing follows this design.
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