Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Return of Tibullus to Delia

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July 13, 12:35 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Japanese Private Collection

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British

1828 - 1882

The Return of Tibullus to Delia

signed with monogram and date 1868 lower left

watercolour and bodycolor with gum arabic on paper

Unframed: 49 by 59cm., 19¼ by 23¼in.

Framed: 76.2 by 86.5cm., 30 by 34in.

Probably given by the artist to Charles Fairfax Murray to sell on his behalf and sold by Murray to Major Charles Sydney Goldman before 1899; thence by descent to Commander Penryn Monck and thence by further descent, until 1992
Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 12 November 1992, lot 148
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1899, pp. 148, 249, no. 209

Dr George Charles Williamson, Murray Marks and his Friends, 1919, p. 59

Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1971, Vol. I, p. 26, no. 62R2