LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and sepia ink and brown wash on paper laid on board

Measurements:

35.12 in. (89.20 cm.) (height) by 14.49 in. (36.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'LUNA' and 'SOL' (in circles upper corners)

Exhibited:

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Autumn 1911, no. 128, lent by Morris & Co. London, Royal Academy, Rossetti Exhibition, 1973, no. 246. London, Royal Academy, and Birmingham, City Art Gallery, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, January - May 1973, no. 194, lent by the Stone Gallery.

Literature:

H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, London, 1899, pp. 83-86, no. 13a. A.C. Sewter, 'D.G. Rossetti's Designs for Stained Glass', Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, Vol. xiii, no. 2, London, 1960-1, p. 423. V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Catalogue Raisonne, Oxford, 1971, p. 89, no. 157. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, exhibition catalogue, Uxbridge, 1973, p. 52, no, 194.

Provenance:

with Morris & Co., London. with Siddons Gallery, London, by 1964. R.F. Appleby, by 1966. Terence W.G. Rowe, 1968. with Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1969. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 5 November 1974, lot 34. where purchased by William Waters, from whom purchased by the present owner, 1975.