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Pen and Ink Drawing - Found - Study for the Head of the Girl

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1904P488
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1859c - 1861c

Maker Information

Artist:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - View biography for Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Notes

This is the finished study finally used for the oil painting, Found (Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington). Rossetti abandoned the painting for several years, taking an interest in it again only in 1859 on the offer of a commmission from the Newcastle collector James Leathart. The immediate results seem to have been a number of studies in pen and ink of the heads of the man and woman, including this sheet. The model is Fanny Cornforth; although she is known to have sat for Rossetti in early 1858 this would appear to be Rossetti's earliest surviving drawing of her.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
Medium:Black pen and ink with scratching out, and black and grey wash, on paper.
Material(s):Paper

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Dimensions

Height:175 mm
Width:194 mm