File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Writing on the Sand.jpg

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Writing on the Sand   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1828–1882)  wikidata:Q186748 s:en:Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti q:en:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alternative names
Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death 12 May 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 9 April 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata United Kingdom Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q186748
Title
Writing on the Sand
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)
Date between 1858 and 1859
date QS:P571,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor
medium QS:P186,Q22915256
Dimensions height: 26.3 cm (10.3 in); width: 24.1 cm (9.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,26.3U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,24.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
British Roy PVII (not on view)
Accession number
1886,0607.14
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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Artist's monogram and date bottom right:

DGR / 1859
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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