File:Death of A Wombat.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this preview: 389 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 156 × 240 pixels | 312 × 480 pixels | 499 × 768 pixels | 665 × 1,024 pixels | 1,388 × 2,136 pixels.
Original file (1,388 × 2,136 pixels, file size: 764 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q186748 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
I never reared a young Wombat To glad me with his pin-hole eye, But when he most was sweet & fat And tail-less; he was sure to die! |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
6 November 1869 date QS:P571,+1869-11-06T00:00:00Z/11 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
pen on paper medium QS:P186,Q165447;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 17.9 cm (7 in); width: 11.3 cm (4.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,17.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,11.3U174728 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
PD 1939-5-13-6 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history | Donated by Steele, Robert. Previous owner/ex-collection Morris, Jane. Previous owner/ex-collection Morris, May | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Gift of Dr Robert Steele (Executor of the will of May Morris) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
British Museum: online database: entry 727391 British Museum Rossetti Archive |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | reproduction of MS., obtained from small scan at BM | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
Licensing
[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
This file was reviewed on 27 February 2012 by the administrator or trusted user Dereckson (talk), who confirmed the Public Domain status on that date.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 15:34, 14 June 2013 | 1,388 × 2,136 (764 KB) | Pseudomonas (talk | contribs) | Higher-res version. | |
13:06, 6 April 2010 | 600 × 600 (187 KB) | Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version as of 21:29, 5 April 2010 | ||
21:39, 5 April 2010 | 341 × 404 (81 KB) | Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs) | crop out verse and spooky background for transcription | ||
21:29, 5 April 2010 | 600 × 600 (187 KB) | Cygnis insignis (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=Image of a sketch and poem showing subject and author. |Source=reproduction of MS., obtained from small scan at [http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_image.aspx?image=ps340033.jpg&retpage=21435 BM]. Text is |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 3 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on af.wikipedia.org
- Usage on azb.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikisource.org
- Usage on id.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pnb.wikipedia.org
- Usage on uk.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ur.wikipedia.org
- Usage on vi.wikipedia.org
Structured data
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
Categories:
- Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Self-portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Eulogies
- Rossetti's wombat
- Men crying
- Crying in art
- Caricatures of animals
- Caricatures of artists
- Caricatures of painters
- Caricatures of writers
- Caricatures of death
- Caricatures of the United Kingdom
- Self-portrait caricatures
- 19th-century caricatures
- 1869 drawings
- Drawings in the British Museum
- People with wombats
- Mourning in art