Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

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Proserpine

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Signed and dated 1880; inscribed "Proserpina" and with the artist's sonnet in Italian.

Coloured chalks on paper

47 x 22 inches, 119.5 x 56 centimetres

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Provenance and exhibitions

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Bibliography

Nahum, Peter, and Sally Burgess. Pre-Raphaelite-Symbolist-Visionary. London: Peter Nahum at Leicester Galleries. Catalogue number 9.

Marillier, H. C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London: George Bell and Sons, 1899.

Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Eds. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

Surtees, Virginia. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Catalogue no. 183E. I, 107.

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Last modified 27 June 2020