LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

17.91 in. (45.50 cm.) (height) by 14.96 in. (38.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 1867 l.r., inscribed, signed and dated on the reverse: A Christmas Carol/ D.G. Rossetti 1867/ (oil)

Exhibited:

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no.52 (lent by George Rae) Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites - Their Friends and Followers - Centenary Exhibition, 1948, no.167 (lent by Viscount Leverhulme) Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1828-1882, 1971, no.65 London, Christie’s, Treasures of the North, 2000, no.70; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2003, no.109

Literature:

William Michael Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti as a Designer and Writer, 1889, p.81 Portfolio, May 1894, p.66 F.G. Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1894, p.70 H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, 1899, pp.82, 131, 145-6, cat.no.187 H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, second edition, 1901, p.107, illustrated opposite p.106 Gowans & Gray (publisher), Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings, 1923, illustrated p.38 Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 - The Paintings and Drawings - A Catalogue Raisonné, two volumes, 1971, Vol. I, pp.112-3, no.195; Vol. II, illustrated plate 284 Virginia Surtees (editor),The Diaries of George Price Boyce, 1980, p.46 Paul Spencer-Longhurst, The Blue Bower - Rossetti in the 1860s, 2001, p.22, illustrated p.21

Provenance:

Mr Prange, from whom purchased by Murray Marks in 1872 in part exchange for another picture (a chalk drawing of Miss May Morris) Purchased from Murray Marks by G. Alderson-Smith of Scarborough for £170 Purchased in 1876 by George Rae of Birkenhead Purchased in 1917 from the Trustees of the Estate of George Rae by William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and thence by descent