LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, on paper

Measurements:

8.74 in. (22.20 cm.) (height) by 7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed by William Michael Rossetti 'See Inscription on Frame - Peppino/was the son of the Maenza who/housed Dante G. Rossetti in/Boulogne. This Portrait was always/regarded in The Family as little better/than a caricature, yet it is not totally/unlike' (on a label attached to the backboard)

Literature:

William Michael Rossetti, 'The Portraits of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - I', Magazine of Art, 1889, p. 23. William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family Letters with a Memoir, London, 1895, vol. 2, pp. 23, 25. William E. Fredeman (ed.), The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cambridge, 2002- , vol. I, pp. 33-4 (note 6).

Provenance:

Given by the artist to Mrs Gabriele Rossetti in December 1844. Christina Rossetti by 1889. William Michael Rossetti and by descent in his family to the present owner.