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Elizabeth Siddal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1850-65

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour and pencil

Dimensions: 13 x 9 1/2 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1850-65

Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right. The monogram design belongs to 1863 or later.

Production Description

Production Date: 1850-65

Exhibition History: Ashmolean Museum, Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 1991 (no.2)

Note: The date is ambiguous, and may indicate that the drawing was begun in 1850, and taken up again in 1863; the monogram probably comes from the latter date.

Model: Elizabeth Siddal

Provenance

Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Catalog Number: 1575

Archival History: Mrs. Thomas Ayres; Christie's sale April 23, 1906 (lot 31), £31. 10 s.; J.R. Holliday Bequest 1927; Fitzeilliam Museum, Cambridge (no.1575)

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 189 (no. 458).
Surtees, Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 18-19, plate 2.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s458.rap.xml