Lady Lilith (study) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Lady Lilith (study) DGR 1867 (circa) New Gallery, 1897 (no. 73) £100 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas, Art Collection 65.504 DGR gave this drawing to Fanny Cornforth, who sold it to J. Hamilton Trist in 1882 for £100; Trist Sale, Christie's, April 9, 1892 (no. 21), sold for £63; bought in by H.H. Trist; sold at the Mrs. Trist Sale, Christie's, April 23, 1937, for £33. 12s; Bought by Banks; acquired by Texas in 1965. pastel 38 x 30 in. The portrait shows much less of the room than the finished oil paintings. The window/mirror at the upper left is only partially visible in this picture, and there is no glass with a flower in the lower right. Worldly Beauty Fanny Cornforth Commentary
Introduction

This is a finished study for the original oil with Fanny Cornforth as model. DGR gave it to her as a gift.

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 134. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 117 (no. 205A).