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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Lot 5

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Cavemen

Fermé15 December 2010

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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.

Note du spécialiste

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.