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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 13, 2012 | Christie's | London | Victorian & British Impressionist Art | 17 | $****** - ****** | Washing Hands |
Works on Paper
44.5 x 37.5 cm (17.52 x 14.76 in)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with gum arabic, on paper
signed with monogram and dated '1865' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'Washing Hands. painted in watercolour by D.G. Rossetti./Aug. 1865' (on a label attached to the backboard)
Bought from Rossetti in 1865 by Frederick W. Craven of 54 Mosley Street, Manchester, for £286-5-0
his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 8 May 1895, lot 48 (480 gns to Gooden & Fox). Sir Cuthbert Quilter, of 74 South Audley Street, London, by 1896. with Ernest Kolb in 1911, according to an exhibition label on the reverse, presumably acting as agent for the Quilter family. By descent in the Quilter family to the present owner.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1882, lent by Frederick Craven. London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no. 54, lent by Frederick Craven. Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 1497, lent by Frederick Craven. London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Water Colour Drawings, 1896, no. 139, lent by Cuthbert Quilter. Manchester, City Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1911, no. 152, lent by Ernest Kolb.
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