Dorothy and Theophilus
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1849
Physical Description
Medium: (uncertain) pen and ink or pencil
Dimensions: unknown
Note: Marillier classifies this as a pen and ink drawing, while Sharp
calls it “an interesting study in pencil”
(Sharp,
DGR: A Record and a Study, 270).
Production Description
Production Date: 1849
Provenance
Current Location: unknown
Archival History: John P. Seddon.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s43.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
“Presumably illustrating an incident in the martyrdom of St. Dorothea, at which Theophilus was one of her persecutors” (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 12 (no. 43)).
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