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Borgia

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1851

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1851

Note: The monogram, inscribed with the date at lower right, was added in 1860.

Production Description

Production Date: 1851

Exhibition History: Hogart Club 1859; R.A., 1883 (no.346); New Gallery 1897 (no.60); Manchester 1911 (no.154); Tate 1923 (no.21); Birmingham 1947 (no.97); Leicester Museums and Art Gallery, The Victorian Vision of Italy, 1968 (no.38); Newcastle 1971 (no.5); R.A., 1973 (no.56); Baden–Baden 1973–74 (no.96); Tate 1984 (no.174)

Provenance

Current Location: Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery

Catalog Number: 125.1949.30

Purchase Price: bequest

Archival History: G.P. Boyce; Christie's sale July 1, 1897 (lot 153), £94. 10 s.; C. Shannon; L. Hacon; Sir Edmund Davis; Gordon Bottomley; Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Originally conceived as a sketch inspired by lines from Shakespeare's Richard III (Act I, Scene i), this work evolved into a scene in the life of the Borgia family.

Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 106.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 38-39, 41.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 15 (no. 48).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 35.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 35.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , facing 38.
Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 106.
Verso of painting in Tullie House, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery.
Delaware Art Museum print.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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