English: «Two women in a garden face each other. The one on the right is drinking from a long glass offered to her by a serving-woman in a blue smock. . . . Espalier trees against a red-brick wall provide the background». (Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings – A Catalogue Raisonneé, 1971, no. 112, 2 volumes, vol. I., p.68)
Thomas Edward Plint of Leeds, his sale Christie’s, 7 March 1862, lot 159 to James Leathart for £22. 10s; James Leathart of Bracken Dene, Low Fell, Gateshead, his sale Christie’s, 19 June 1897, lot 9 unsold and by descent through the Leathart family
Exhibition history
Royal Academy, 1883, no.367; Goupil Gallery, London, A Pre-Raphaelite Collection, 1896, no.17; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Leathart Collection, 1968, no.59; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pre-Raphaelites, Painters and Patrons in the North East, 1989-1990, no.91; Bunkamura Museum of Art, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Ishibashi Museum of Art, Japan, Rossetti, 1990-1991, no.15
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DGR 1859
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Model: The serving woman in the blue smock is
Fanny Cornforth
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