Copyright: ©Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial
Hesterna Rosa
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1865
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1865
Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.
Production Description
Production Date: 1865
Exhibition History: Manchester Royal Institute 1882 (no.249); B.F.A.C., 1883
(no.38); Manchester,
Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887
(no.1791)
Patron: Frederick W. Craven.
Original Cost: 125 guineas
Provenance
Current Location: Bancroft Collection, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware
Archival History: Frederick W. Craven; Christie's sale May 18, 1895 (lot 46), £215; Fairfax Murray; Major C. S. Goldman; Agnew
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s57.r-1.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Sharp quotes the following from a letter of DGR to Frederick Craven: “The [lighting] effect is that of a lamp light interior towards dawn when (as in twilight) all objects seem purely and absolutely blue by contrast with the warm light therein” (see Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 141).
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