LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and bodycolor

Measurements:

26.38 in. (67.00 cm.) (height) by 23.23 in. (59.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 1868 l.l.

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Works by the Old Masters, Including a Special Selection from the Works of John Linnell and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no.305;. London, New Gallery, Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the British and Continental Schools Including a Special Selection of the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1897-1898, no.66

Literature:

H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1899, cat.no.211, p.136 and 150;. Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1971, cat.no.173r.2;. Oliver Garnett, 'The Letters and Collection of William Graham - Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphael Collector', in The Walpole Society, 2000, cat.no.a35, p.286, repr. fig.115

Provenance:

Bought directly from the artist in March 1868 by William Graham Esq. of 44 Grosvenor Square, London, for £300, inventory no.45;. His sale Christie's, London, 3 April 1886, lot 112, bought by Agnew's on behalf of Graham's daughter, Amy (Mrs Kenneth Muir Mackenzie), thence to her daughter Dorothea (Mrs Mark Hambourg) by whom sold to David Hughes of The Stone Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where purchased by the present owner in 1966