See source: the drawing is evidently traced from a study for the head of christ in rossetti's mary magdalene at the door of simon the pharisee, an elaborate pen-and-ink drawing of 1858-9. The finished work is in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, the study in a private collection (see surtees, no. 109, pl. 156, and 109f, pl. 161). An inscription on the study in rossetti's hand states that it was 'drawn (1859) from e. Burne-jones as a study for head of christ'. Burne-jones had been rossetti's devoted follower since 1856. It is not clear in what circumstances the tracing was made, but it is by a competent hand and could well be by rossetti himself. Date: 1859. Dimensions: 19 × 17.1 cm (7.4 × 6.7 in). Medium: pencil, tracing paper. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Edward Burne-Jones as Christ (pencil)
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