Live Auction 7891Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings and Watercolours
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Lot 5

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Cavemen

Closed15 December 2010

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GBP 2,250

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Cavemen
pen and black ink, on paper, unframed
2½ x 4 3/8 in. (6.4 x 11.2 cm.)

William Michael Rossetti and by descent in his family to the present owner. Previously framed by William Michael Rossetti with lots 3 and 4.

Specialist note

William Michael Rossetti suggested that the drawing was 'rather earlier than 1855' and identified the subject as 'gypsies'. The figures seem rather to be prehistoric cavemen, a curious theme for D. G. Rossetti, and one that does not apparently occur in any of his other early drawings or paintings.