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Study for Micheal Scott's Wooing
Victoria and Albert Museum
Red and black chalk
Date: 1869
This is a study for an oil painting that was never begun.
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Penelope
Private collection
Chalk, predominantly red
Date: 1869
Depicts Penelope at her loom, holding a shuttle in her hand.
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Study for The Blessed Damozel
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Black crayon on paper
Date:1876
Study for the background of the painting The Blessed Damozel, based on Rossetti's poem of the same name. the center is inscribed with the verse:
'Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's aclaims
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their rapturous new names.'
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Study for The Blessed Damozel
Victoria and Albert Museum
Red chalk on paper
Date: 1873
An alternate study for the main figure of The Blessed Damozel.
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Study for The Blessed Damozel
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Pencil
Date: 1876
A study for one of the embracing couple in the background of The Blessed Damozel.
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Woman with a Fan
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Crayons
Date: 1870
A portrait of Fanny Cornforth holding a fan.
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Study for La Bella Mano
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Crayons
Date: 1875
This half lengh drawing of Alexa Wilding is a study for the painting La Bella Mano.
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Study for the predella of Beata Beatrix
Aukland City Art Gallery
Pencil
Date: 1872
Dante, kneeling and is welcoming Beatrice who lifts a veil from her face into him arms, while women in the backgound sing and hold musical instuments.
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Study for Roman Widow
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Pen and brown ink
Date: 1874
A Roman widow, dressed in white sits beside her husband's urn playing on two harps.
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Study for Dante's Dream
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Black crayon on paper
Date: 1879
This is a study for one of two predellas for the oil painting painting of Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice. The subject is described on the frame below the predella:
'Dante being sick and crying out in a dream of his lady's death, is mourned over by his near kinswomen whom other ladies lead thence by reason of his grief and awaken him'
In a cloud in the centre background is a shadow-like depiction of the figures in the painting Dante's Dream.
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Study for Dante's Dream
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Black crayon on paper
Date: 1879
Study for the second predella for Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice. The subject is described on the frame below the predella:
'Dante recalling the incidents of this sorrowful dream, recounts them to the leadies who have awakened him; whereto his grieving kinswoman also hearkens apart.'
In the centre background is the soul of Beatrice departing on a winged cloud.
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