drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,1210.2
- Description
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La belle dame sans merci, unfinished study; couple on horseback riding to right, man holding and kissing the woman's right hand. 1855/6(?)
Brush drawing in grey wash, and pen and black and brown ink, and graphite
- Production date
- 1855 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 332 millimetres
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Width: 432 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gere 1994
The unusual scale and technique suggest that this may have been the beginning of a watercolour, which was never carried further. It probably dates from the mid-1850s, as Virginia Surtees suggests. Rossetti treated the subject in another, and less immediately recognisable, way, with the two figures walking side by side, in a pen and brown wash drawing dated 1848 (S 32, repr. Marillier, opp. p. 17) and a watercolour dated 1855 (S 76). See also 1916,1115.4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1976 Sep-Nov, New Haven, Yale Art Gallery, 'Rossetti', no. 29
1988 Apr-May, Ramsgate AG, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti'
1994/5 Sept-Jan, BM, 'Pre-Raphaelite Drawings', no. 16
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Acquisition notes
- Rossetti sale, Christie's, 12.v.1883/84 bt Gillum for 8 pounds 8 shillings
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,1210.2
