Desdemona's Death-Song

Dante Gabriel Rossetti1878/1880

Details

Title: Desdemona's Death-Song
Creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date Created: 1878/1880
Physical Dimensions: overall (frame size): 127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in.)
Provenance: (the artist's studio sale, Christie's London, 12 May 1883, no. 14); Charles Fairfax Murray (probably by 1893 but certainly by 1899); Sir Thomas Wardle (by 1904); (his sale, Leek, Staffordshire, May 1909); W. H. Rider; by descent to his wife; her nephew, J. T. Birch; by descent to his son, W. R. Birch; (sale, Sotheby's London, 20 November 1969, no. 191); (Leger); Robert S. Walker (by 1971); Sir Paul Getty; (his sale, Christie's London, 24th November 2004, no. 4); (Agnew's, London); purchased 2005 by NGA.
Medium: black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper

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