Reverie

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1868

Physical Description

Medium: colored chalks
Dimensions: 33 x 28 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1868
Note: Monogram and date are on the scroll in the upper left.

Production Description

Production Date: 1868
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C. 1883, (no.40)
Model: Jane Burden Morris

Provenance

Current Location: L. S. Lowry, R.A.
Archival History: T. Watts-Dunton; Mrs. Watts-Dunton Sale Sotheby's 1939 (no. 60); The Hnble Mrs. Pomeroy; Miss Sheena Carslaw; David Hughes; Stone Gallery Newcastle

Scholarly Commentary

Pictorial

The painting is a reimagination in oils of the photographic image of Jane Morris seated and leaning forward, made by DGR and John Parsons in 1865.

Bibliography

Reverie
Copyright: Christie's Images, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 299.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s206.rap.xml