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La Donna Della Finestra (finished drawing)

Alternately titled: The Lady of Pity

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1870

Physical Description

Medium: pastel on greenish paper

Dimensions: 33 x 28 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1870

Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower left.

Production Description

Production Date: 1870

Exhibition History: Worcester 1882 (no.465); Bradford, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1904 (no.937); Port Sunlight 1948 (no.169); Newcastle 1971 (no.68); Manchester 1972 (no.52); R.A., 1973 (no.362)

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Provenance

Current Location: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester University

Catalog Number: 752

Archival History: Rossetti Sale (lot 35), £53. 11 s.; S.M. Milne; Sotheby's sale April 21, 1921 (lot 202); Croal Thomson; Whitworth Art Gallery 1921, £165

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 80.
Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 336.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, 160, 197.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 152 (no. 255D).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 385.
Wood, Drawings of D. G. Rossetti , 21, plate I.

Reproductions

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 160.
Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 80.
Wood, Drawings of DGR , 21, plate I.
Delaware Art Museum print.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 385.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s255d.rap.xml