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Elizabeth Siddal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1854

Physical Description

Medium: pen and sepia, shaded with the finger

Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

Note: A note inscribed by WMR appears on verso: “Liz, by G. circa 1855 or perhaps as late as '58.”

Production Description

Production Date: 1854

Exhibition History: Tate 1923 (no.186); Maas Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries , 1962 (no.72); Ashmolean Museum, Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 1991 (no.18)

Model: Elizabeth Siddal

Provenance

Current Location: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Catalog Number: P. 433

Archival History: WMR; By descent to Mary Rossetti; Mrs. H. Rossetti Angeli; Maas Gallery 1962, £300; Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

Scholarly Commentary

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Bibliography

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 191 (no. 469).
Surtees, Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal, 31, plate 18.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

File Name: s469.rap.xml