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The Parable of the Vineyard: The Letting of the Vineyard to the Husbandmen

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1861

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink and ink wash, laid down

Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 23 in.

Signature: monogram

Note: Monogram on lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1861

Exhibition History: Beaux Arts Gallery, Drawings and Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 1940 (no.40); Bournemouth, 1951 (no.84); Victoria and Albert Museum, The Firm of Morris & Co. , 1961 (no.3)

Intended Context: Design for stained glass for the east window of St. Martin's Church, Scarborough.

Provenance

Current Location: William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

Catalog Number: A 264

Archival History: Mr. Johnson of Manchester; T. H. McConnell; Frederick Leyland; Kerrison Preston; Sold at Preston Sale at Christie's on March 2, 1956 (lot 44); William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 113.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 82 (no. 134).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 203.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , 115 (plate XLVIII).

Included Text

No: II. “And let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country.”

Note: Inscribed just below the drawing.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 203.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate XLVIII.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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