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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
History note: Given by the arist to Fanny Cornforth who sold it to Lord Battersea; bought from him by Fairfax Murray after the New Gallery Exhibition
Height: 182 mm
Width: 158 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1909-07) by Murray, Charles Fairfax
Production date: AD 1861
The drawing was executed as a pendant to the portrait of Browning - no. 681, S. 275.
White chalk
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Coloured chalks
Graphite
Black chalk
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Graphite, black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour, coloured chalks heightened with white and highlights scratched out of the paper
Inscription present: monogram
Accession number: 682
Primary reference Number: 13344
Surtees: 523
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 770
Accession Number: P.2522-R
Accession Number: 3901
Accession Number: P.64-1957
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