File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Annunciation (1855).jpg
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Annunciation
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| Title |
The Annunciation |
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| Description |
English: The Virgin is bathing her feet in a small stream which reflects the image of the angel Gabriel who hovers between two trees to the right. The Holy Ghost floats above Mary's head. |
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| Date | 1855 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | watercolour, pencil, gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 14 in (35.5 cm); width: 9.7 in (24.7 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Agnew's, London | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history | G.P. Boyce 1855; Christie's sale July 1, 1897 (lot 155), £89. 5 s.; Mrs. Boyce; J.W. Marsden; Dr. R.J.B. Marsden and E.C. Marsden; Christie's sale July 11, 1972 (lot 67); Sawyer; Sir Paul Getty | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | B.F.A.C. 1883 (no.3); New Gallery 1897 (no.53); Rome, Royal Commission International Fine-Arts Exhibition, 1911; Tate 1923 (no.10); R.A., Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, 1973 (no.106); Tate, Pre-Raphaelites, 1984 (no.212) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
The picture was executed in 1855 for George Boyce. According to Boyce's diary, DGR borrowed it back on 27 December 1858 to make some changes. Elizabeth Siddal sat for the figure of the Virgin. |
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| References |
Rossetti Archive Christie's, LotFinder: entry 4387737 (sale 6958, lot 3, London, 24 November 2004) |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.pinterest.com/pin/403564816580904727/ – image | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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