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Elizabeth Siddal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1850 (circa)

Physical Description

Medium: pencil

Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.

Signature: monogram

Note: The monogram is inscribed at lower right. DGR has included a separate drawing of her lips at lower left.

Production Description

Production Date: 1850 (circa)

Exhibition History: Yale University, Pictures collected by Yale Alumni, (no.1956)(no.212); Ashmolean Museum, Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 1991 (no.1)

Model: Elizabeth Siddal

Provenance

Current Location: unknown

Archival History: Mrs. Janet Camp Troxell; Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd, London.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the earliest known study of Elizabeth Siddal at about the age of seventeen.

Bibliography

Ainsworth, Double Work of Art, 23.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 189 (no. 457).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 421.
Surtees, Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 18, plate 1.

Reproductions

Ainsworth, Double Work of Art, 23.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 421.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s457.rap.xml