height: 31.7 cm (12.4 in); width: 60.3 cm (23.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,60.3U174728
Collection
Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
Accession number
P.548
Object history
Commissioned by James Leathart; by descent to his son, T.H. Leathart; Sir Edmund Davies, his sale Christie's 7 July 1939, no.88, £420; bought by Kerrison Preston, who later gave it to Gordon Bottomley, who willed back to Preston, his sale Sotheby's, 15 March 1967, no.34, £2,500; purchased Thos. Agnew & Son Ltd on behalf of Gallery.
Exhibition history
Winter Exhibition, London, R.A., 1883, no.291; Winter Exhibtion, London, R.A., 1901, no.159; London, Goupil Gallery, 1896, no.11; Franco‑British Exhibition, Paris, 1908, no.429; The Pre‑Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848 – 62), Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery, 1947, no.123; Paintings and Drawings by the Pre‑Raphaelites and their Followers, Bournemouth, Russell‑Cotes Art Gallery, 1951, no.59; The Leathart Collection, Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 1968, no.62; Pre‑Raphaelites – Patrons and Painters in the North East, Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 1989‑90, no.93; Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 – 1882, Japan, Tokyo, Nagoya and Kurume, 1990-91, no.20.
Inscriptions
Artist's monogram and date lower left of central panel:
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Captions
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1862). Watercolor on paper, 31.7 x 60.3 cm (12.4 x 23.7 in)