Live Auction 8020Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Elizabeth Siddal (1834-1862)
Lot 9 From a Collection of a descendent of William Michael Rossetti (Lots 7 & 9)

Elizabeth Siddal (1834-1862)

The Descent from the Cross

Closed15 December 2011

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Elizabeth Siddal (1834-1862)
The Descent from the Cross
pen and black ink and brown wash, on paper
7¾ x 5½ in. (19.7 x 14.0 cm.)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
William Michael Rossetti and by descent in his family to the present owner.

Specialist note

This is almost certainly the design listed in William Michael Rossetti's article of 1903 and again in the 1991 exhibition catalogue. It is described there as 'known only from photographic portfolio', although it had been exhibited by the Arts Council as recently as 1964.