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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1862

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 13 x 24 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1862
Note: The monogram and date are inscribed at lower left of central panel.

Production Description

Production Date: 1862
Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.291); R.A., 1901 (no.159); Paris, Franco–British Exhibition, 1908 (no.429); Birmingham 1947 (no.103); Bournemouth 1951 (no.59); Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leathart Collection, October 1968 (no.62)
Patron: James Leathart

Provenance

Current Location: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England
Catalog Number: P. 548/P.M. 25
Archival History: James Leathart; T. H. Leathart; Sir Edmund Davis; Christie's sale July 7, 1939 (lot 88), £420; Kerrison Preston; Gordon Bottomley; Kerrison Presion; Sotheby's sale March 15, 1967 (lot 34), £2,500.; Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Scholarly Commentary

Production History

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery holds a study for Virgil's cloak .

Bibliography

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Copyright: ©Trustees, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England

Included Text

‘Quanti dolci pensier Quanto disio’
Note: This quotation is inscribed along the bottom of the left panel.
‘O lasso!’
Note: This quotation is inscribed between the heads of Virgil and Dante at the top of the central panel.
‘Menó costoro al doloroso passo’
Note: This quotation is inscribed along the bottom of the right panel.

Reproductions

  1. image

    Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 71.
  2. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 88.
  3. image

    Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , [66a recto].
  4. image

    Phythian, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , 28.
  5. image

    Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 21.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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