Live Auction 15507British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Lot 133 Property of a Pre-Raphaelite Collector (lots 133-136, 151-152, and 167-169)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

The Three Fates

Closed11 December 2018

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Three Fates
signed with monogram (lower right)
pen and brown ink on black-edged writing paper, with fragmentary watermark
5 5/8 x 7 ¼ in. (14.3 x 18.4 cm.)

William Bell Scott.
Alice Boyd.
Penkill Castle, Ayrshire; Sotheby's, 3 December 1962, lot 112.
with Maas Gallery, London.
Mrs Ronald Marshall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
with The Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 January 1980, lot 152, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Executed in circa 1851 this humorous sketch shows a youth wearing a loin cloth lying in front of the Three Fates who are seated behind him. Clotho and Lachesis, seated to the left and in the centre, hold a shuttle of threads between them, while to their left Atropos is about to cut the thread with scissors.