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The wedding of St George
Dante Gabriel Rossetti1864
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
In the central archway behind a stone parapet St George and Princess Sabra embrace. The wall behind them is hung with royal cloth-of-gold. In the lower portion of the image, flanked by heralds playing fanfare, we see the remains of the fearsome dragon St George has slain to rescue the princess and hence win her hand. Part of the appeal of this work is its personal subject matter: the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicted himself as St George and his lover Elizabeth Siddal as the princess. However, Siddal is shown posthumously, since the watercolour dates from two years after her death from an overdose of laudanum.
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Details
- Title: The wedding of St George
- Creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Date Created: 1864
- Physical Dimensions: 29.0 x 35.3 cm image; 31.2 x 38.4 cm sheet; 47.0 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm frame
- Provenance: Emily Ebbs Williams, 1864-1912, England, presented to Emily Ebbs Williams by her husband RH Williams as a wedding present, by bequest to her sister Lady Gosse in 1912; Ernest Gambart, 1864, London/England, [dealer] probably with Ernest Gambart; Lady Gosse, 1912-1928, England, by bequest, sister of Emily Ebbs Williams; G.P Dudley Wallis, 1928; Kerrison Preston, 1940; Beaux Arts London, 1940, London/England; Newman, 1953; Jerrold Northrop Moore, 1958-circa 1964, New Haven/Connecticut/United States of America, in the collection of Moore until at least 1964; Alister Matthews, 1958; Macmillam & Perrin Gallery, Vancouver, post 1964-pre 1978, Vancouver/British Columbia/Canada, dates unknown; Stuart Pivar, 1978; Hirschl & Adler, New York, 1998, New York/New York/United States of America; Hirschl & Adler, New York, pre 01 Dec 2003, New York/New York/United States of America, Purchased by the AGNSW from Hirschl & Adler 2003; Private Collection, pre 01 Dec 2003, United States of America
- Type: Watercolour
- Rights: Purchased with funds provided by John Schaeffer 2003
- External Link: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/432.2003/
- Medium: watercolour and bodycolour with gum and scraping out over traces of pencil
- Signature & Date: Signed and dated l.l., "DGR [in monogram] 1864".
- Artist Country: England
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