Blessed Damozel
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1876
Physical Description
Medium: Red and black chalks on pale green paper
Dimensions: 47.6 x 30.1 cm
Signature: monogram
Note: Monogram is inscribed on the lower left, and the date on the lower right. On the back is the inscription: "Transfigured workhouse
Boy, Drawing made at Broadlands
August 1876, by D.G. Rossetti"
Production Description
Production Date: 1876
Provenance
Current Location: Private Collection
Archival History: Christie's sale April 27, 1976 (no.197); Private Collection.
Reproductions
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Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 321.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa890.s244.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is one of two studies for the angel executed by DGR in the Broadlands while a guest at Cooper Temple's house in August of 1876.
Production History
DGR wrote to Treffry-Dunn on August 13, 1876: "They set about finding me babies for the baby head in the Damozel. First came a workhouse baby. I spent a day in drawing it, but it wouldn't do."
Pictorial
This is a study for the head of a cherub in The Blessed Damozel .
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