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Hamlet and Ophelia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1854?
Physical Description
Medium: pen and brown wash over pencil
Dimensions: 258 x 181 mm
Other production information determined from the object: In the lower right corner, DGR wrote ‘D.G. Rossetti to’
(possibly S. Solomon).
Note: Rossetti also wrote the title of the work in ink in lower right corner.
Production Description
Production Date: 1854?
Provenance
Current Location: British Museum
Catalog Number: 1974-4-6-11
Archival History: Simeon Solomon? Henry Holiday. Sold by Messrs Jolly at an anonymous sale in
Bath on March 4, 1974 (lot 175). Bought by Agnew for the Museum.
Reproductions
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Gere,
British Museum Yearbook, i, 1976 pp.277.
(image unavailable) -
Gere,
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings in the British Museum, 24, 26.
(image unavailable)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa829.s108.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is an early drawing of a subject that kept a strong hold on DGR's imagination. It is most closely related to another early drawing at Birmingham, which was a study for the highly finished pen and ink drawing housed, like this sketch, in the British Museum. In 1866 DGR executed a watercolour that approaches the subject in the same general way as the finished British Museum drawing.
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