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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.203
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Pandora
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1879
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298142

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalks on cream wove paper
Dimensions
103.2 × 62.7 cm (40 5/8 × 24 11/16 in.)
framed: 122 × 87 cm (48 1/16 × 34 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: chalk, l.l.: [monogram] / 1879
  • inscription: Pandora's box, chalk, in artist's hand: ULTIMA / MANET / SPES

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 224 R.1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.203
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life, George Bell & Sons (London, 1899), pp. 164, 198, no. 290, repr. p. 164
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 86
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 224 R.1, pl. 321
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Disegni, Nuova Italia (Florence, 1982), pp. 40, 42, no. 62, repr.
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 506, repr. p. 331
  • Mary Bennett, Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation (London, 1988), p. 182
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 506, repr. p. 331
  • David Wayne Thomas, "Replicas and Originality: Picturing Agency in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester", Victorian Studies (Autumn 2000), vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 67-102, p. 79, fig. 7
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 39, repr. (color)
  • David Wayne Thomas, Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 2004), fig. 26
  • Important British & Irish Art, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, June 9, 2004), p. 68 (under no. 20), fig. 1
  • Jessica Feather, British Watercolours and Drawings: Lord Leverhulme's Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool University Press (Liverpool, 2010), p. 166
  • British and Irish Art, auct. cat. (London, May 22, 2014), under no. 207

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002

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