Category:Ecce Ancilla Domini! by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

**Ecce Ancilla Domini**
	painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	Annunciation;
Depicts	Virgin Mary, woman, angel, Annunciation, lily and Gabriel
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	religious art;
Location	Tate Britain, Millbank, City of Westminster, Greater London, London, England
Creator	Dante Gabriel Rossetti;
Collection	Tate; National Gallery;
Inventory number	N01210 (Tate); NG1210 (National Gallery);
Inception	1850;
Width	41.9 ±0.1 cm;
Height	72.4 ±0.1 cm;
Religion or worldview	Christianity;
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ecce Ancilla Domini

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description	Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death	12 May 1828	9 April 1882
Location of birth/death	London	United Kingdom
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q186748 VIAF: 41848725 ISNI: 0000000121296670 ULAN: 500022594 LCCN: n79117985 NLA: 35463837 MusicBrainz: 0ef75909-44c6-44e0-bc9c-1093c220f541 WGA: r/rossetti Open Library: OL31006A Oxford Dict.: 24140 GND: 118749900 SELIBR: 222723 SUDOC: 027893057 BNF: 11983717w NDL: 00454740 BIBSYS: 90080351 NKC: jn20010316159 SBN: CFIV033209 BNE: XX1057565 CiNii: DA00973038 NLP: a0000002017005 KulturNav: 80d0bc57-de16-498e-bb2e-b709095a7495 RKD: 68363 J9U: 987007267196805171 Koninklijke: 068369549 NLK: KAC201913274 WorldCat

Title

Ecce Ancilla Domini!

Alternative title:
The Annunciation

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Annunciation

Depicted people

Date

March 1850 (retouched in 1874)

Medium

oil on canvas mounted on panel

Dimensions

72.4 × 41.9 cm (28.5 × 16.4 in)
with frame: 100.2 × 69.8 × 8.8 cm (39.4 × 27.4 × 3.4 in)

Collection

Tate Britain

	Native name	Tate Britain
	Parent institution	Tate
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 29′ 28″ N, 0° 07′ 40″ W
	Established	1897
	Website	www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain
	Authority file	: Q195436 VIAF: 235803538 ISNI: 0000000123147871 ULAN: 500266827 LCCN: nr00020808 NLA: 42891327 WorldCat

Current location

BP Walk through British Art – Room 1840

Accession number

N01210

Object history

Fraces MacCraken; Christie's sale March 31, 1855 (lot 83), £79. 16 s.; Pearce; John Heugh; Christie's April 25, 1874 (lot 153), £388. 10 s.; William Graham; Christie's sale April 3, 1886 (lot 113), £840.; Tate Gallery

Exhibition history

National Institution, Portland Gallery, 1850 (no.225); Royal Academy, 1883 (no.288); Whitechapel 1883 (no.16); Manchester 1911 (no.1210); Amsterdam, 1936 (no.130); Paris 1938 (no.115); Tate 1948 (no.20); Royal Academy, 1973 (no.37); Tate 1984 (no.22)

Credit line

1886:

Inscriptions

bottom left:

DGR / March 1850

Notes

Christina Rossetti sat for the Virgin initially.
Miss Love, a professional model, sat for the Virgin's hair.
Maitland, Lambert and White was three professional models who sat for the angel Gabriel.
William Michael Rossetti and Thomas Woolner sat for the angel Gabriel's head.

References

Tate, online database: entry N01210

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