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The Day Dream

Alternately titled: Monna Primavera

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1878

Physical Description

Medium: pastel and black chalk

Dimensions: 41 1/4 x 30 1/4

Production Description

Production Date: 1878

Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.76); R.A., 1973 (no.360); Baden–Baden 1973–74 (no.135); Yale 1976 (no.24); Rome 1984 (no.13)

Note: The date which Marillier associates with this image is probably due to information received from Jane Morris herself (200). The image may in fact be the original drawing of 1872.

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Provenance

Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Archival History: Jane Morris; May Morris; Ashmolean Museum 1939

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Commentary is not yet available for this image.

Bibliography

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 339.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 200.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 154 (no. 259A).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 389.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 389.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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