Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_A_Christmas_Carol_(1857-8).jpg - Wikipedia

Summary

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : A Christmas Carol (

)

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description	Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death	12 May 1828	9 April 1882
Location of birth/death	London	United Kingdom
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q186748 VIAF : 41848725 ISNI : 0000000121296670 ULAN : 500022594 LCCN : n79117985 NLA : 35463837 WorldCat

Title

A Christmas Carol

Object type

painting

Date

between 1857 and 1858

Medium

watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper mounted on another sheet of paper, mounted on linen and stretched on a stretcher

Dimensions

34.3 × 29.7 cm (13.5 × 11.6 in)
with frame: 50.6 × 45.7 × 6.3 cm (19.9 × 17.9 × 2.4 in)

Collection

Fogg Museum

	Native name	Fogg Art Museum
	Parent institution	Harvard University
	Location	Cambridge , United States of America
	Coordinates	42° 22′ 30.29″ N, 71° 06′ 52.26″ W
	Established	1895
	Website	http://www.harvardartmuseums.org
	Authority file	: Q809600 VIAF : 132449533 ISNI : 0000000406087397 ULAN : 500265900 LCCN : n79105958 NLA : 35091307 WorldCat

Accession number

1943.490

Object history

Sold by the artist to James Leathart, Brackendene, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1859 (£63); purchased from his estate by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1897; acquired from him by Grenville L. Winthrop, July 1913 (£1,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Credit line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Inscriptions

Artist's monogram, text and date top left in gouache :

DGR Xmas / 1857-8

Notes

Model: Elizabeth Siddal sat for the principal female figure

References

Rossetti Archive

Source/Photographer

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298155

Licensing

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The author died in 1882, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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