Michael Scott's Wooing (red chalk drawing) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © Collection: William Morris Gallery, London E17 Michael Scott's Wooing DGR 1870-71 (circa) R.A., 1883 (no. 336). The William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow BRD43 bequest Fanny Cornforth; sold to J. Hamilton Trist (1882) for £100; bought in by his son, H.H. Trist, for £56. 14s at the April 9, 1892, Christie's Trist sale; sold at the Christie's Mrs. Trist sale, April 23, 1937 (no. 75) for £25; Sir Frank Brangwyn. red chalk 28 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , facing page 145. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 313. <artist/> <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>The design for this picture is quite different from the design for the <xref doc="a.s56.raw">1853 drawing</xref>. The <xref doc="a.sa81.s222.rap">watercolour</xref> commissioned in 1867, and the <xref doc="a.sa82.s222.rap">oil painting</xref> commissioned in 1871 were never executed. Surtees describes it thus: “Michael Scott kneels in the foreground and slips a ring on the girl's finger; further to the right stands a hooded female figure cutting a crucifix from her girdle. Love stands in the centre, in the fork of a tree, head upturned, surrounded by foliage; his wings are closed, the tips crossed in the front of his body. On the extreme left two shrouded figures are introduced, one with back turned. On either side above, are groups of young women looking down on the scene below” (<bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="124" workcode="29-1869.s222"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Catalogue Raisonné</hi> vol. 1, 124 ).

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Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 144-45. Surtees, <hi rend="i">Catalogue Raisonné</hi> vol. 1, 124 (no. 222). Surtees, <hi rend="i">Catalogue Raisonné</hi> ,vol. 2, (plate 313).