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Oil Painting - The Boat of Love
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Basic Information | Accession Number: | 1885P2476 |
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Collection: | Fine Art Paintings and Sculpture |
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Date: | 1874 - 1881 |
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Maker Information | Artist: | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - View biography for Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Notes | An illustration of Dante's second sonnet, addressed to Guido Cavalcanti and Lapo degli Ubenti. The picture was commissioned by William Graham in 1873 (in the same year Frederick Leyland comissioned another version on a larger scale, but this does not appear to have been begun). The painting was begun in 1874 but was abandoned in 1881 because of a disagreement with Graham over terms. Thereafter it remained in the artist's studio until his death, when it was purchased for the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
In our archival file is unpublished information relating to the painting in preparation for Henry Treffry Dunn's 'Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle' (1904). We also have seven pencil studies for this subject.
| Purchased, 1883. |
Further Information | Production Period: | 19th century |
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School/Style: | Dante |
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Medium: | Monochrome oil on canvas (unfinished). |
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Material(s): | Canvas |
Associated People | | Dimensions | Height: | 1245 mm |
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Width: | 940 mm |
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