Copyright: ©By permission of the British Library
Landscape Sketch
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1871 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pencil on white unlined paper
Dimensions: 5.9 x 2.8 cm
Production Description
Production Date: 1871 (circa)
Note: This drawing is included in a
small
notebook
DGR used in the 1870s. On the
facing
page
is another set of
sketches, with different
orientation.
Provenance
Current Location: British Library
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa117.s226.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This drawing is part of a series of sketches in the British Library's Small Notebook 1 that appear to be related to the painting, Water Willow . Among these are a number of rough landscape sketches, perhaps made en plein air during DGR's walks through the countryside around Kelmscott Manor (Fredeman, Correspondence, 71.130). There is another, more finished drawing dating from this period and depicting similar landscape features.
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