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Summary
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Christmas Carol
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| Title |
A Christmas Carol |
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| Object type |
painting  |
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| Date | 1867 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 45.5 cm (17.9 in); width: 38 cm (14.9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
Private collection |
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| Object history |
Mr Prange, from whom purchased by Murray Marks in 1872 in part exchange for another picture (a chalk drawing of Miss May Morris) Purchased from Murray Marks by G. Alderson-Smith of Scarborough for £170 Purchased in 1876 by George Rae of Birkenhead Purchased in 1917 from the Trustees of the Estate of George Rae by William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and thence by descent |
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| Exhibition history |
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no.52 (lent by George Rae) Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites – Their Friends and Followers – Centenary Exhibition, 1948, no.167 (lent by Viscount Leverhulme) Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – 1828-1882, 1971, no.65 London, Christie’s, Treasures of the North, 2000, no.70 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2003, no.109 |
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| Inscriptions |
Artist's monogram and date bottom right: DGR 1867
Text, signature and date reverse:
A Christmas Carol / D.G. Rossetti 1867 / (oil)
Text bottom center:
Here a maid, well-apparelled, sings a song of Christ's birth with the tune of Bululalow: "Jesus Christus hodie Natus est de Virgine"
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| Notes | Model: Ellen Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Rossetti Archive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2013, lot 48 – with frame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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