The Queen's Page
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1854 June 9
Physical Description
Medium: pen and brown ink and sepia wash
Dimensions: 6 x 4 1/4 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: June 9/54
Note: Monogram and date located at lower right. Inscription of a poem by Heine in the hand of
William Allingham located on the reverse)
Production Description
Production Date: 1854 June 9
Exhibition History: London, New Gallery,
Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the
British and Continental Schools, including a Special Selection from the Works of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
, 1897-8 (no.18); Manchester City Art Gallery,
Loan
Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites
, 1911 (no.169); London,
Royal Academy,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1973 (no.53)
Provenance
Current Location: Private Collection
Archival History: William Allingham; Helen Allingham; Henry W. Allingham, by 1911; Patrick
Allingham; Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, June 3, 1994 (lot 82); Agnew's, London:
Christie's sale June 5, 2007 (lot 99) sold for
£60,000
Reproductions
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Allingham, Flower Pieces , facing 189.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s66.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR sketched this drawing while waiting for William Allingham in the later's rooms at 1 Queen Square, Bloomsbury on June 9, 1854. It was drawn adjacent to a translation of a poem by Heine in a notebook belonging to Allingham, who published a reproduction of it many years later (in 1888) in his Flower Pieces and Other Poems .
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