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“To Caper Nimbly in a Lady's Chamber to the Lascivious Pleasing of a Lute”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1850

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 6 in.
Date on Image: 1850
Note: The title is inscribed below the image. The signature and date are inscribed at lower left.

Production Description

Production Date: 1850
Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.342); Tate 1911 (no.36); Birmingham 1947 (no 206)
Original Cost: gift

Provenance

Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 478'04
Archival History: G.P. Boyce; Christie's sale July 1, 1897 (lot 158), £20. 9 s. 6 d.; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Sources of the Work

Literary Source: Shakespeare's Richard III, Act I, Scene i.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This original composition is followed fairly accurately by DGR's Borgia watercolour .

Bibliography

“To Caper Nimbly in a Lady's Chamber to the Lascivious Pleasing of a Lute”
Copyright: © Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 36.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s47.rap.xml