Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882, British, Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate, ca. 1852
- Title:
- Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate
- Date:
- ca. 1852
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 × 7 7/8 inches (22.9 × 20 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in graphite upper right in monogram: "GDR"
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Mount two inches all round - | put in the glass - gilt edge"; in graphite lower right: "Rossetti, D.G.: Head of Dante"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.3
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- historical subject | meditation | pomegranate | portrait | sitting
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13132
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Van Gogh Museum, 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Walker Art Gallery, 2003-10-17 - 2004-01-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p.29, no. 117, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 29, no. 117, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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