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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-1882
The queen's page / DGR [monogram].
[London : s.n., 1888?]
photomechanical
image: 104 x 74 mm; sheet: 181 x 109 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1337
Notes
Proof(?) of a photomechanical reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by D.G. Rossetti illustrating the poem from Heine, "The queen's page," drawn by Rossetti in 1854 and first reproduced in 1888 in William Allingham's Flower pieces and other poems.
Drawing signed with Rossetti's monogram and dated "June 9/54".
Drawing signed with Rossetti's monogram and dated "June 9/54".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration shows the youthful queen walking with the elderly king and glancing back over her shoulder at the handsome young page holding the train of her dress.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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