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Benedick and Beatrice

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1850

Physical Description

Medium: pencil
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 13 7/8 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1850
Exhibition History: Manchester 1911 (no.180); Tate 1923 (no.190); Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Summer 1967 (no.46); Tokyo 1990 (no. 117)

Provenance

Current Location: L. S. Lowry, R.A.
Purchase Price: £315
Archival History: H.C. Marillier; Christie's sale January 25, 1952 (part of lot 80); Sotheby's sale July 12, 1967 (lot 286), £30; Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; L. S. Lowry, R.A., £315.

Sources of the Work

Literary Source: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Note: Surtees suggests this sketch was intended for a watercolor depicting the final scene of the play (vol. 1, 15).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Commentary is not yet available for this image.

Bibliography

  • English Drawings and Watercolours, Christie's London, 18 December 1984.
  • Fredeman, Correspondence, 50.15.
  • Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 35-36, 235.
  • Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 15 (no. 46).
  • Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, plate 32.
Benedick and Beatrice
Copyright: English Drawings and Watercolours (Christie's London, December 18, 1984).

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, plate 32.
  2. image

    Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 36.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s46.rap.xml