Santa Rosa [recto] and Unfinished Head [verso]
![Santa Rosa [recto] and Unfinished Head [verso]](/internal/media/dispatcher/464272/preview)
Artist
Francesca Alexander(American, active Italy 1837–1917)American, active Italy 1837–1917
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Santa Rosa [recto] and Unfinished Head [verso]
Date1884–1885
MediumPen and ink with graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet (at open): 16 1/4 × 11 3/16 in. (41.3 × 28.4 cm)
Frame: 21 3/8 × 26 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (54.3 × 67.5 × 4.1 cm)
Frame: 21 3/8 × 26 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (54.3 × 67.5 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2026.246.A,.B
Not on view
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Published References Constance Grosvenor Alexander, Francesca Alexander: A “Hidden Servant” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), 101 (cropped illustration facing page 100). E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds., The Works of John Ruskin (London: George Allen, 1907), vol. 32, plate XXVI and passim. M.H. Speilmann, “Francesca Alexander, and ‘The Roadside Songs of Tuscany,’” The Magazine of Art 18 (June 1985): 296 (illus.). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink, left bottom edge: Francesca Alexander
Verso: [inaccessible]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Chopmark, bottom right: REYNOLD DRAWING BOARD [encircling a crown motif at its center]
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