Sweet Tooth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1862-64 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 12 in.
Other production information determined from the object: Title, name of artist and date: ‘January 1859’, are inscribed on
the back of the picture in an unknown hand.
Production Description
Production Date: 1862-64 (circa)
Exhibition History: Manchester, 1911 (no.153); Tate,
Loan exhibition of works by
Pre-Raphaelite painters from collections in Lancashire
, July 1913 (no.42); Newcastle,
1971 (no.59)
Model: Agnes Manetti
Note: Rossetti and his circle often referred to her as “Fatty Aggie”.
Provenance
Current Location: Private Collection
Archival History: Peter Miller; Richard Manley Foster; Christie's February 20, 1904 (lot 3), remained unsold at £389; R.E.R.
Brocklebank; Mrs. R.P.R. Brocklebank; Christie's, March 3, 1970 (lot 151), £5,775; Stone Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne; Piccadilly Gallery, Galleria Galatea Torino; Private
Collection
Reproductions
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Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 244-245.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s123.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The picture went untraced after its last (1913) public exhibition, but it appeared again in 1970 when it was sold at Christies. It is now in a private collection.
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