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The Laboratory

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1849

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour over pen and ink

Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1849

Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no. 2); Tate, 1911 (no. 54); British Art , R.A., 1934 (no. 849); Birmingham, 1947 (no. 95); Bournemouth, 1951 (no. 55)

Original Cost: gift

Provenance

Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Catalog Number: 481'04

Archival History: W. Bell Scott; Fairfax Murray

Scholarly Commentary

Literary

The subject of this painting comes from Robert Browning's poem The Laboratory.

Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 98.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , viii, 34-35, 234.
Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 26, 28, 31.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 11.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 25.

Reproductions

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 98.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 25.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , facing 34.
Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 26.
Delaware Art Museum print, Bancroft Collection.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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