Bottles Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial Delaware Art Museum Bottles DGR 1848 Bancroft Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington WMR believed Madox Brown sold the painting to Herbert H. Gilchrist in 1894, whereas records in the Bancroft Collection suggest that it belonged to Fanny Cornforth until its sale in 1898. oil 14 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. monogram Monogram on the largest bottle, lower left. Probably added around 1860. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 17. Hunt, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelitism</hi> , 75. Delaware Art Museum print. Fanny Cornforth It is likely that Fanny modeled for the figure of the sleeping woman. 1860 (circa) Surtees suggests that the sleeping figure may have been painted in around 1860, when the circular monogram DGR was then using, was probably added. <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p> <quote>“Executed under the tutelage of Madox Brown in the early part of 1848, and probably the first attempt in oils. The older artist had set him to paint still-life, a form of drudgery much opposed by Rossetti”</quote> (<bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="7" workcode="s31"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 7 (no. 31)).

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Hunt, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelitism</hi> , 75. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 7 (no. 31).