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Fair Rosamund
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Rossetti studied with Ford Madox Brown and was founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. He explored the romantic world of mediaeval mysticism. Fair Rosamund (d.c.1176) was the mistress of Henry II. She appears here behind a balustrade in the royal manor of Woodstock. The red silk cord in her hand, according to legend, warned of her lover's approach. The sitter, Fanny Cornforth, was a frequent model of Rossetti's. She became his housekeeper after the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal in 1862.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 169
Creation/Production
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel
Date: 1861
Acquisition
Transfer, 1921
Measurements
Height (cm): 51.9
Width (cm): 41.7
Height (in): 20
Width (in): 16
(): h(cm) frame:71.3
(): h(cm)
Length (cm): 61
(): w(cm) frame:3.5
(): w(cm)
(): h(in) frame:28
(): h(in)
Length (in): 24
(): w(in) frame:1 3/8
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Techniques
canvas
Material
oil
Location
Currently on loan
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