The Damsel of the Sanct Grael

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

Tate Collection

1870 - 1883

The standing figure of an angel with spreading red-gold hair, robed in green with a shot green and pink overdress, holds a long-stemmed cup and a basket, with a folded white napkin in her hand. The holy dove above her bears a censer in its beak.

• Medium: watercolour
• Dimensions: 36 x 12 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1916
• Vendor: Rae family

Provenance

Collection of W Morris.

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