The blue bower

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1865
Height:
84.0 cm  (33 1/16 in.)
Width:
70.9 cm  (27 15/16 in.)
Rossetti Archive dimensions: 35 1/2 x 27 1/4 in.
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
London (England)
School:
Pre-Raphaelite

    Item location

  • Barber Institute of Fine Arts (University of Birmingham)

Description

A woman with typically pre-Raphaelite flowing hair is represented with her hands plucking the strings of a Japanese koto.

People as subjects

Cornforth, Fanny (1824-1906)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Koto [3668] (In some literature the instrument has been erroneaously identified as a dulcimer.)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Tim. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian avante-garde (London: Tate Publications, 2012) 168.

Surtees, Virginia. The paintings and drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): a catalogue raisonné (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971) vol. 1, 102 (no. 178); vol. 2, plate 259. ISBN 0198171749.

Notes

The sitter for the portrait is identified as Fanny Cornforth.

RIdIM record id

2981