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Summary
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Writing on the Sand
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| Title |
Writing on the Sand |
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| Description |
English: Writing on the sand, portraits of Sir Richard Rivington Holmes and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (?); couple on beach, with his walking-stick the man is sketching the woman's head in the sand, beyond the sea to left, bordered to right by a curving sweep of sand, backed by low cliffs, in distance group of figures on shore. 1858-9 Watercolour, begun on a smaller piece of paper, stuck onto a larger piece to enlarge the composition on the left, bottom and right. (see source) |
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| Date | between 1858 and 1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | watercolor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 26.3 cm (10.3 in); width: 24.1 cm (9.4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
British Roy PVII (not on view) |
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| Accession number |
1886,0607.14 |
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| Object history | Probably Ruth Herbert; Sold at the Christie's auction of May 25, 1886, (lot 120) for £25. 4 s.; Colnaghi; British Museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history |
1891 Feb-Mar, BM, 'Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches' 1973/4 Nov-Feb Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 'Präraffaeliten', no.124 1984 Feb-May, London, Tate Gallery, 'The Pre-Raphaelites', no.226 (repro.) 1985 BM, British Landscape Watercolours 1600-1860, no.191 1994/5 Sep-Jan, BM, Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, no.20 2003/4 Oct-Jan, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti' 2004 Feb-June, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti' 2010/2011 Oct-Jan, Washington, NGA, The Pre-Raphaelite Lens 2011 Mar-May, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, The Pre-Raphaelite Lens |
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| Inscriptions |
Artist's monogram and date bottom right: DGR / 1859
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| Notes | Elizabeth Siddal or Ruth Herbert may have been the model for the woman. The head of the man is supposed to have been taken from Sir Richard Holmes, later Librarian at Windsor. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Rossetti Archive | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | British Museum: online database: entry 738793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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