File:RuthHerbert Rossetti.jpg
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portrait of Ruth Herbert
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Portrait of Ruth Herbert |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: In February of 1859, Rossetti “discovered” the actress Ruth Herbert when he saw her in a performance at the Strand Theatre in London. It was, however, two years before he was able to convince her to model for him. His enthusiasm for her beauty is made clear in a letter to his friend, William Bell Scott, to whom he wrote, “[she] has the most varied and highest expression I ever saw in a woman’s face, besides abundant beauty, golden hair, etc. Did you ever see her? O my eye!” (see references) |
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| Date | circa 1858-1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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graphite, watercolor and gilt paint on paper [Delaware Art Museum] watercolor, gold powder and umber rubbed in gum on white paper [Rossetti Archive] |
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height: 9.7 in (24.7 cm); width: 6.7 in (17.1 cm) with frame: 16.5 × 13.5 in (41.9 × 34.2 cm) |
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DAM 1935-59 |
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| Object history | Puchased at the Manchester Exhibition by William Sharp, 1871; sold by his executor, Mr. Gillibrand, in 1892; Bancroft Collection, Willmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Manchester Exhibition, 1871 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Model: Louisa Ruth Herbert Crabbe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Delaware Art Museum Rossetti Archive |
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| Source/Photographer | http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/12/dante-gabriel-rossetti-ruth-herbert-c.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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