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Summary

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Mnemosyne  wikidata:Q6885900 reasonator:Q6885900
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1828–1882)  wikidata:Q186748 s:en:Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti q:en:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alternative names
Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death 12 May 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 9 April 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata United Kingdom Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q186748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Mnemosyne
Alternative titles:
Lamp of Memory
Ricordanza
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
detail
English: Painting begun in 1875 or early 1876 and completed in 1881.
Depicted people Jane Morris Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 49.7 × 24 in (126.3 × 60.9 cm)
frame dimensions: 53 × 38.5 in (134.6 × 97.7 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q1183941
Accession number
1935-22
Object history
  • Frederick R. Leyland; Sold at the Leyland sale at Christie's, May 28, 1892 (lot 49) for £325;
  • W. Connal;
  • Blakeslee Galleries, New York, 1908;
  • bought from Agnew in 1916 by the Bancroft Collection, Wilmington Socity of Fine Arts, Delaware
Exhibition history R.A., 1883 (no.315); R.A. Winter, 1906 (no.119)
Credit line Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Inscriptions

Artist's monogram and date bottom left:

DGR 1881
The frame bears a two line inscription written by DGR for the work:
Thou fill'st from the winged chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal.
References Delaware Art Museum
Rossetti Archive
Source/Photographer http://www.preraph.org/searchresults.php?rp=5&class=painting (Delaware Art Museum)
Other versions
Gabriel Dante Rosetti, Mnemosyne.jpg
Mnemosyne (color) Rossetti.jpg
Mnemosyne (cropped).jpg

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