Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882, British

Title:

Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

Date:

ca. 1852

Materials & Techniques:

Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 9 × 7 7/8 inches (22.9 × 20 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Mount two inches all round - | put in the glass - gilt edge"; in graphite lower right: "Rossetti, D.G.: Head of Dante"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1976.3

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

portrait | historical subject | pomegranate | sitting | meditation

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance (Musei di San Domenico, 2024-02-23 - 2024-06-30)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Walker Art Gallery, 2003-10-17 - 2004-01-18)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Van Gogh Museum, 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06)

Publications:

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 29, no. 117, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 29, no. 117, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13132