File:Death of a Wombat.jpg
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[edit]Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q186748 |
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Title |
Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat |
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Description |
I never reared a young Wombat To glad me with his pin-hole eye, But when he most was sweet & fat And tail-less; he was sure to die! |
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Date |
6 November 1869 date QS:P571,+1869-11-06T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Medium |
pen on paper medium QS:P186,Q165447;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 17.9 cm (7 in); width: 11.3 cm (4.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,17.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,11.3U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
PD 1939-5-13-6 |
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Object history | Donated by Steele, Robert. Previous owner/ex-collection Morris, Jane. Previous owner/ex-collection Morris, May | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Gift of Dr Robert Steele (Executor of the will of May Morris) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
British Museum: online database: entry 727391 British Museum Rossetti Archive |
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Source/Photographer | reproduction of MS., obtained from small scan at BM | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Categories:
- Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Self-portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Eulogies
- Rossetti's wombat
- Men crying
- Crying in art
- Caricatures of animals
- Caricatures of artists
- Caricatures of painters
- Caricatures of writers
- Caricatures of death
- 19th-century caricatures of the United Kingdom
- Self-portrait caricatures
- 1869 caricatures
- Drawings in the British Museum
- People with wombats
- Mourning in art