The Nativity
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1855 June
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: unknown
Production Description
Production Date: 1855 June
Original Cost: £15 (possibly 15 guineas)
Repainting: January 1856?
In a January, 1856, letter to DGR, Ruskin says that the artist has “much
mended” the painting. Ruskin's chief gripe concerned the coloring of the
flesh.
Provenance
Current Location: unknown
Archival History: John Ruskin
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s71.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
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Production History
WMR's Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism prints an October, 1855 letter from Ruskin to DGR: “Please oblige me in two matters or you will make me ill again. Take all the pure green out of the flesh in the Nativity I send, and try to get it a little less like worsted-work by Wednesday, when I will send for it. I want the Archdeacon of Salop, who is coming for some practical talk over religious art for the multitude, to see it.” See also Doughty and Wahl, Letters, 26 as well as Troxell, Three Rossettis, 28-29.
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