Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti (1828-1882)
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
This recently re-discovered drawing is unmistakably of Rossetti’s friend and Pre-Raphaelite Brother the sculptor Thomas Woolner. Be-capped and puffing away vigorously on his pipe, he sits with a demure Lizzie Siddal doing needlework by the fireside. The setting is a fantastic re-imagining of Woolner’s studio at 101 Stanhope Street, ‘where the Pre-Raphaelites used to meet, smoke and have tea, discussing the Art and Poetry of the day.’ There is a similar Rossetti drawing, inscribed ‘101 Stanhope Street’ and dated 1850, of Woolner standing, wearing a cap and smoking, with strange decorative objects on the wall behind, in Birmingham Museums (1904P368). Our drawing is in Rossetti’s early vigorous, ‘thrown off’ manner, heavily hatched with pen and ink. Our thanks to Tom Nevile and to Christopher Newall.
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