Lot 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Washing Hands
signed with monogram and dated '1865' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'Washing Hands. painted in watercolour by D.G. Rossetti./Aug. 1865' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with gum arabic, on paper
17½ x 14¾ in. (44.5 x 37.5 cm.)

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1882, lent by Frederick Craven.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no. 54, lent by Frederick Craven.
Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 1497, lent by Frederick Craven.
London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Water Colour Drawings, 1896, no. 139, lent by Cuthbert Quilter.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1911, no. 152, lent by Ernest Kolb.

W. Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study, London, 1882, p. 198, and Appendix, no. 143.
W.M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer, London, 1889, pp. 51, 62, 281, no. 213.
W.M. Rossetti (ed.), Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters with a Memoir, London, 1895, vol. 1, pp. 239-40.
H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, London, 1899, pp. 138-9, illustrated, 246, no. 166 (as 'owner unknown').
W.M. Rossetti (ed.), Rossetti Papers 1862-1870, London, 1903, p. 139.
'Extracts from G.P. Boyce's Diaries 1851-1875', Old Water-Colour Society's Club, vol. XIX, London, 1941, p. 50.
H. Rossetti Angeli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Friends and Enemies, London, 1949, pp. 132, 141, 225.
O. Doughty and J.R. Wahl (eds.), Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oxford, 1965-7, vol. 2 (1965), p. 559.
V. Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford, 1971, vol. I, p. 103, no. 179 (as 'present whereabouts unknown').
J. Christian, 'Early German Sources for Pre-Raphaelite Designs', Art Quarterly, vol. XXXVI, nos. 1-2, Detroit, 1973, p. 59.
V. Surtees (ed.), The Diaries of George Price Boyce, Norwich, 1980, p. 43.
W.E. Fredeman et al (eds.), The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cambridge, 2002-10, vol. III (2003), pp. 303, 306-7, 309, 312-3, 316-8; vol. V (2005), p. 195.

Bought from Rossetti in 1865 by Frederick W. Craven of 54 Mosley Street, Manchester, for £286-5-0; his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 8 May 1895, lot 48 (480 gns to Gooden & Fox).
Sir Cuthbert Quilter, of 74 South Audley Street, London, by 1896.
with Ernest Kolb in 1911, according to an exhibition label on the reverse, presumably acting as agent for the Quilter family.
By descent in the Quilter family to the present owner.