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La Pia De' Tolomei

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1868

Physical Description

Medium: coloured chalks

Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 31 1/2 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1868

Note: Monogram and date appear in the lower right corner.

Production Description

Production Date: 1868

Exhibition History: Tokyo (1990)

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Provenance

Current Location: R. F. Shaw-Kennedy

Archival History: Originally owned by the 1st Earl Lytton; then to his daughter, Lady Betty Balfour; Sotheby's, June 26, 1940 (no. 144), £15. 15 s; bought 1946 by Leicester Galleries; sold in 1952 to R.F. Shaw-Kennedy

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, Tokyo 1990, 96 (plate 48).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 119 (no. 207b).
Wood, Drawings of DGR , [61] (plate XXI).

Included Text

RICORDITI DI ME CHI SON LA PIA

Note: Text is located at the top of the drawing, on the wall behind the figure.

Reproductions

Wood, Drawings of DGR , [61] (plate XXI).
Delaware Art Museum print, Bancroft Collection.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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