Copyright: Courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Perlascura
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1871
Physical Description
Medium: pastel on pale green paper
Dimensions: 22 x 17 1/4 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1871
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no. 133)
Original Cost: gift to Jane Burden Morris
Model: Jane Burden Morris
Provenance
Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 323. -
Delaware Art Museum print, Bancroft Collection.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s225.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the original drawing that was done in 1871 and given as a gift to Jane Morris, and it was the first work by DGR to be reproduced as a photograph, in 1877, through Frederic Shields and the Autotype Company. It was also the drawing that led DGR to plan a book of double works that would feature the image of Jane Morris: Perlascura: Twelve Coins for One Queen . The project did not, however, materialize.
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