Description: “...a pencil sketch of a naked female figure, seated fronting the spectator with her head turned to
the left and both hands raised to her mouth.” (Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné, 16).
Nude sketch
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1850 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pencil
Dimensions: 19 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.
Other production information determined from the object: Borgia
Note: Inscribed by G.P. Boyce at lower left.
Production Description
Production Date: 1850 (circa)
Provenance
Current Location: Virginia Surtees
Archival History: G.P. Boyce; Boyce sale at Christie's, July 1, 1897 (part of lot 20); Sir Charles Holmes;
purchased by Sir Sydney Cockerell, January 1, 1898; given to Virginia Surtees in 1959
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa912.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This sketch appears on the verso of a preliminary study of a little dancing girl for Borgia. The word “Borgia”, written by G.P. Boyce is faintly decipherable.
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