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Winifred or Monica Heaton

Alternately titled: Portrait of a Little Girl Seated in a Chair

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1861

Physical Description

Medium: pencil

Dimensions: 19 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.

Other production information determined from the object: Inscribed in pencil in DGR's hand at the top of the paper: “It is not a bit like, but beastly. I only send it supposing you wouldnt wish it to go in the fire, but if you do, put it there. Some day I'll do a better, says your DGR.”

Production Description

Production Date: 1861

Exhibition History: Huntington Hartford Collection, New York and the Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1964, The Pre-Raphaelites: a loan exibition of paintings and drawings by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their associates, (no.76)

Model: Winifred Heaton

Note: The model is possibly Winifred Heaton.

Model: Monica Heaton

Note: The model is possibly Monica Heaton.

Provenance

Current Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

Catalog Number: 1962/2.29

Archival History: Aldam Heaton; thence by descent to his great-grandson Christopher Calthrop; Sold at Sotheby's, May 9, 1962 (lot 102) for £50 to Alister Mathews, from whom it was purchased that same year by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Indianapolis/New York, 1964, (The Pre-Raphaelites: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their Associates), no. 76.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 166 (no. 324).

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s324.rap.xml