Edith Williams

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1879 April 28
Model: Edith Williams

Bibliography

◦ Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 334.

◦ Surtees, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, 201, (no. 537).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

WMR notes that Valpy arranged for DGR to do this chalk portrait of “the daughter of a lady residing at Shirley Hall, Tunbridge” ( DGR. Designer and Writer, 288 (no. 365) ). WMR says the picture was completed in May but on 28 April DGR wrote to Watts-Dunton that “I finished Miss W.'s head today from her” ( Fredeman, Correspondence, 79. 56 ).

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