Catalogue entry
T03817 SKETCH OF ANGELS' HEADS ?c.1875
White chalk 17 7/16 × 19 11/16 (443 × 500) on canvas 20 5/16 × 22 5/16 (515 × 567), the drawing over a reddish-brown ground, the rest of the canvas only primed
Presented by W. Graham Robertson (as part of N 05064) 1940
Prov: N05064 was painted for F.R. Leyland, at whose sale, Christie's 28 May 1892 (48), it was bt by W. Graham Robertson, but it is not known at what point T 03817 became attached to the painting
This chalk sketch is on a fragment of canvas taken from the bottom left corner of a larger canvas; the original tacking edges remain at the left and bottom. The fragment was found attached to the back of Rossetti's ‘Proserpine’, N05064, when W. Graham Robertson presented the painting in 1940, but was only separately registered by the Gallery in 1984. The canvas was pinned to a board with the drawing facing the back of ‘Proserpine’, the whole being ‘Nailed on lower half of stretcher at back and papered down’ according to a note made on 7 August 1940 by D.C. Fincham, then an Assistant at the Gallery… (read more)
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