LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink on black-edged writing paper

Measurements:

5.63 in. (14.30 cm.) (height) by 7.24 in. (18.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram (lower right) with fragmentary watermark

Exhibited:

London, Maas Gallery, Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau, 1964, no. 92.

Literature:

V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Catalogue Raisonee, Oxford, 1971, p. 208, no. 589.

Provenance:

William Bell Scott. Alice Boyd. Penkill Castle, Ayrshire; Sotheby's, 3 December 1962, lot 112. with Maas Gallery, London. Mrs Ronald Marshall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with The Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 January 1980, lot 152, where purchased by the present owner.