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Carlisle Wall

Alternately titled: The Lovers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1853

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1853

Note: Monogram and date are inscribed on the wall to the right with the inscription “Carlisle 1853”.

Production Description

Production Date: 1853

Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no. 368); Loan Exhibition, Campden House, 1896; New Gallery, 1897 (no. 62); Tate, 1923 (no. 5)

Provenance

Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Archival History: Ford Madox Brown; B.G. Windus; T.E. Plint; sold at the Christie's Plint sale March 7, 1862, (lot 146) for £15. 4 s.; H. Virtue Tebbs; Sold at the Christie's Tebbs sale, March 10, 1900 (lot 32) for £176. 8 s.; bought in by Tebbs family (?) according to Surtees. At the wishes of the late Miss E.K. Virtue Tubbs, the Trustees of the Tate Gallery deposited the item in the Ashmolean in 1950.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Commentary is not yet available for this image.

Bibliography

Fontana, “Representations of the Kiss,” 80-88.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 4.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 23 (no. 60).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 52.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 52.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 4.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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