Alexander Shannan Stevenson, by whom purchased in August 1867; By descent to Mrs Nancy Thompson, née Stevenson; Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1989, lot 29; Private collection; Anonymous sale, Christie's, 26 November 2003, lot 17; Private collection
Exhibition history
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no. 51 (lent by A. S. Stevenson); Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Royal Mining, Engineering and Industrial Exhibition, 1887, no. 766 (lent by A. S. Stevenson); London, New Gallery, Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the British and Continental Schools, including a Special Selection from the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1897, no. 52; Takamatsu, City Museum of Art; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Himeji, City Museum, Himeji, City Museum, Symbolisme en Europe, 1996-97, no. 40
Inscriptions
Artist's monogram and date bottom left:
DGR 1867
inscribed on a label attached to the backboard: The Loving Cup / Watercolour / D. G. Rossetti
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