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Pencil Drawing - The Boat of Love - Compositional Study

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1910P73
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1854 - 1856

Maker Information

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

Notes

An early unfinished drawing, begun around 1855, this is one of the earliest of Rossetti's Dante subjects, representing the sonnet 'Guido Vorrei'. The drawing was abandoned but Rossetti returned to the subject about twenty years later.

Presented by Charles Fairfax Murray in 1910.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
Medium:Pencil and watercolour on squared-up paper.
Material(s):Paper

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Dimensions

Height:620 mm
Width:443 mm