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The Day Dream

Alternately titled: Monna Primavera

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1880

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 62 1/2 x 36 1/2

Production Description

Production Date: 1880

Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.316)

Patron: Constantine Ionides

Date Commissioned: Autumn 1879

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Note: The present head is the second painted on this canvas.

Provenance

Current Location: Victoria and Albert Museum

Catalog Number: C.A.I. 3

Archival History: Constantine Alexander Ionides Bequest; Victorian and Albert Museum

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 126.
Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 338-339.
Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of DGR , 62.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, 149, 169, 198-200.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 55.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 153-154 (no. 259).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 388.

The Day Dream

Copyright: ©V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum

Reproductions

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 126.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, facing page 198.
Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of DGR, 62.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 55.
Delaware Art Museum print.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 388.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s259.rap.xml