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A Sea–Spell

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1877

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 43 x 35 3/4

Production Description

Production Date: 1877

Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.90); Fogg Museum of Art 1946 (no.84); University of Kansas Museum of Art, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle , 1958

Original Cost: £840

Model: Alexa Wilding

Provenance

Current Location: Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University

Catalog Number: 1939.92

Archival History: F.R. Leyland, £840; sold Christie's sale May 28, 1892 (lot 51), £441; Messrs. Tooth; T.F. Wigley; Croal Thomson; Viscount Leverhulme; Anderson Galleries sale , New York, February 19, 1926 (lot 238), $425; Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest; Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 324-325.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, 108, 172, 184, 191-92, 194, facing 194.
Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of Rossetti , 58.
Powell, “Object, Symbol, and Metaphor,”16-29.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 52.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 145-146 (no. 248).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 367.

Reproductions

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 194, facing 194.
Masterpieces of Rossetti , 58.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 52.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 367.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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