Copyright: ©Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Robert Browning
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1855 October
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
Date on Image: October 1855
Note: âOctoberâ written in the upper left corner.
â1855â written in the upper right corner.
Production Description
Production Date: 1855 October
Exhibition History: Rossetti Gallery (no.12)
Model: Robert Browning
Provenance
Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalog Number: 681
Archival History: Hung over mantle at DGR's House at Chatham Place; given by DGR to Fanny Cornforth; purchased from her by Fairfax
Murray through Gooden and Fox of Pall Mall; presented in July 1909 to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Reproductions
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Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial -
Delaware Art Museum print -
Delaware Art Museum print -
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 398.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s275.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
âRossetti had first met the poet in London in the summer of 1851. . . . In the autumn of 1855 during their stay in London, Rossetti had hoped to paint the portraits of Browning and his wife, but this did not prove practicable, and the present water-colour drawing, begun in London and finished a few weeks later in Paris, was all that materializedâ (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 159 (no. 275)).
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