Details
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Joshua, a design for stained glass
inscribed 'LUNA' and 'SOL' (in circles, upper corners)
black and sepia ink and brown wash on paper laid on board
35 1/8 x 14 ½ in. (89.2 x 36.8 cm.), irregular
Provenance
with Morris & Co., London.
with Siddons Gallery, London, by 1964.
R.F. Appleby, by 1966.
Terence W.G. Rowe, 1968.
with Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1969.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 5 November 1974, lot 34.
where purchased by William Waters, from whom purchased by the present owner, 1975.
Literature
H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, London, 1899, pp. 83-86, no. 13a.
A.C. Sewter, 'D.G. Rossetti's Designs for Stained Glass', Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, Vol. xiii, no. 2, London, 1960-1, p. 423.
V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Catalogue Raisonne, Oxford, 1971, p. 89, no. 157.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, exhibition catalogue, Uxbridge, 1973, p. 52, no, 194.
Exhibited
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Autumn 1911, no. 128, lent by Morris & Co.
London, Royal Academy, Rossetti Exhibition, 1973, no. 246.
London, Royal Academy, and Birmingham, City Art Gallery, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, January - May 1973, no. 194, lent by the Stone Gallery.
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