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Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, seated at a window
Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
History note: ?John Ruskin; Miss Margaret Bell of Winnington School (according to Marillier, see below), her sale c. 1872, bt. Frederick Startridge Ellis (1830-1901 not identifiable at his sale of 1918); Charles Ricketts, R.A. (see Ricketts 'Self Portrait', p. 294)
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 234 mm
Width: 180 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: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Production date: AD 1854-06
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Drawing (image-making) : Graphite, rubbed perhaps with a stump and with some pen and Indian ink on paper, laid down
Accession number: 2147
Primary reference Number: 13377
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 2155
Accession Number: 1431
Accession Number: PD.14-1987
Accession Number: 1432
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