Elizabeth Siddal (Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Provenance

Sold, Christie’s, London, May 12, 1883, Rossetti sale, lot 127, to Professor Daniel Oliver (died 1916) [London 1984]; by descent to Captain Philip Oliver, R.N., by 1971-at least 1973 [Surtees 1971; old label, indicates that Oliver lent the drawing to the 1973 London exh.]. Private collection, by 1984 [London 1984]. Sold by J.S. Maas and Sons Limited, London, to the Art Institute, 1989.

Elizabeth Siddal (Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

c. 1854

Accession Number

90806

Medium

Graphite with stumping, on ivory wove paper, edge mounted to off-white wove paper

Dimensions

26.4 × 11.3 cm (10 7/16 × 4 1/2 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg and Dr. William D. Shorey; William O. Hunt Fund in honor of Harold Joachim; Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Sarah R. Shorey Endowment