Minature portrait of Shakespeare [graphic] / [Dante Gabriel Rosetti].

Minature portrait of Shakespeare [graphic] / [Dante Gabriel Rosetti].

[18--]

1 item : watercolor ; 2 1/2 x 2 in.

paper

Artist: Identification taken from signature and inscription inside volume. Picture is copied from a known portrait and is painted with the minature technique, lacking any identifying traits to link it to Rossetti's style of painting.

Bust portrait, oval, protected by glass, set into the front cover of a book binding. To left, looking front, signed above right shoulder.

History: Taken after Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, the frontispiece to the First Folio.

Provenance: Inset in frontcover of a volume of Shakespeare's Poems, 1709, containing Venus and Adonis, Tarquin and Lucrece, etc. Volume bears inscription from D.G. Rossetti to William Joyce, also Joyce's bookplate. Purchased from Thomas Thorp, bookseller, Aug. 23, 1929.

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Great Britain -- England.

ART Vol. a103

cs1943

Reclassified from PR2842 1709 Copy 3 Ex.Ill.