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The Tune of Seven Towers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1857

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1857

Note: Monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1857

Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.18); Birmingham 1947 (no.104); Whitechapel 1948 (no.69); Detroit and Philadelphia, Romantic art in Britain 1760-1860, 1968 (no.222); R.A., 1973 (no.149); Baden–Baden 1973–74 (no.110); Tate 1984 (no.220)

Patron: William Morris

Date Commissioned: 1857

Provenance

Current Location: Tate Gallery

Catalog Number: 3059

Archival History: William Morris; George Rae; Tate Gallery 1916

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 100.
Cummings and Staley, Romantic Art in Britain, 314-15.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 80b recto, 81, 83.
Powell, “Object, Symbol, and Metaphor”, 16-29.
The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate 1984, 281.
The Studio , 9.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 51 (no. 92).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 130.

Reproductions

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 100.
The Studio , 9.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 80b recto.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 22, plate 130.
Delaware Art Museum print.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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