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The flaming heart, after Rossetti: 2293

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Current Location: Gallery 2

Titles

The flaming heart, after Rossetti

Maker(s)

Painter: Murray, Charles Fairfax

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Notes

History note: Anon. sale (= H.J. Brown), Christie's, 3 March 1924 (34); late W. Lawson Peacock sale, Christie's, 6 February 1925 (117), bt. Stone; coll. Charles Ricketts, R.A., and C.H. Shannon, R.A., by 1926; on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum from C.H. Shannon, 1933-7

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Height: 33 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

1860s
Production date: AD 1863

Note

This is a copy by Fairfax Murray of D.G. Rossetti's painting of 1863, Helen of Troy, now at Hamburg (Kunsthalle, no. 2469); the figure was painted from a model called Annie Miller.

School or Style

British

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of panel (wood)

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: monogram

  • Text: DGR
  • Location: Lower left
  • Type: False signature
  • Text: 1863
  • Location: Lower left
  • Type: False date
  • Text: 526 DT (partly obliterated)
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Stencil
  • Text: 96 0.D.Y.
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Stencil
  • Text: Annie Miller
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: 43 45/P
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: A.K. 2222
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Label
  • Text: 820
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Label
  • Text: James Bourlet and Son 17/18 Nassau St. W.1. (artist (? owner) C. Ricketts R.A. Date 14.4.26. Ref. No. 11689)
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Label
  • Text: of official soliciter "No 4804. 14.8.34. 83"
  • Location: Verso, panel
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: 2293
Primary reference Number: 3691

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 October 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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