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Desdemona's Death–Song (finished design)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1878-1881 (circa)

Physical Description

Medium: pencil with traces of red chalk on grey paper, laid down

Dimensions: 41 x 29 1/2 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1878-1881 (circa)

Exhibition History: probably Bradford, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1904 (no.468)

Provenance

Current Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington

Archival History: Fairfax Murray 1899; Sir Thomas Wardle; Wardle Sale, Leek, 1909; W.H. Rider; Mrs. W.H. Rider; J.T. Birch; By bequest to his son W.R. Birch; Sotheby's sale November 20, 1969 (lot 191), £1,350; Leger; Robert S. Walker; Getty estate; Christie's sale November 23, 2004; Agnew's Art Gallery

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Surtees asserts that this drawing and a crayon design may be one and the same (see Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 150, 237).

Bibliography

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 331-332.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 195-96.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 150, 237 (no. 254).
Wood, Drawings of DGR , 90 (plate XXXVI).

Included Text

Desdemona's Death–Song

Note: The title is inscribed at upper left.

Reproductions

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 196.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate XXXVI.
Delaware Art Museum print.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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