Woman with a Fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1870
Fanny Cornforth <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This finished portrait of Fanny Cornforth was perhaps initially created as a picture intended to illustrate some subject. The inset scroll that carries the date seems to have been placed there for some text or other. As it stands, however, it is a portrait only, and DGR made a present of it to Fanny. “It is surely identifiable as the ‘portrait’ whose sale. . .Rossetti was trying to arrange on [Fanny's] behalf in the winter of 1872-1873”. Charles Augustus Howell, who was acting as agent in these negotiations, told DGR in a letter that “her portrait is truly splendid but it is so full of <hi rend="i">individuality</hi>, such a very <hi rend="i">living portrait</hi>, that I fear I shall never be able to sell it as a picture” (see <bibl> <author>Wildman</author>, <xref doc="a." link="dead" workcode="s207"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Visions of Love and Life</hi> , 266 ).

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Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 102, 159. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 123 (no. 217). Wildman, <hi rend="i">Visions of Love and Life</hi> , 266-267.

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery crayon drawing Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. G. Stephens 1894 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Woman with a Fan DGR 1870 1870 crayon 5 Woman with a Fan [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Brown, charcoal and cream print, mounted on board that is fitted to the size of the print 1 Woman with a fan [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Copper/red and cream print, mounted on beige board 1