Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This exhibition was held at the Walker Art Gallery in 2003/4.
Pencil on paper, dated 1857, 47.6 x 33cm, The Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor)
Rossetti's earliest drawings of Jane Burden, before her marriage, already display the characteristic features of his later images of her: the abundant, wavy hair, full lips, soulful expression and the inclination of the head and neck.