Keywords: Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Sea-Spell.jpg Artwork Creator Dante Gabriel Rossetti en William Michael Rossetti described the picture thus The idea is that of a Siren or Sea-Fairy whose lute summons a sea-bird to listen and whose song will soon prove fatal to some fascinated mariner http //www rossettiarchive org/docs/23-1869 s248 raw html Rossetti Archive 1875-1877 oil on canvas cm 111 5 93 <br /> With frame cm 142 2 122 6 8 9 Institution Fogg Art Museum Level 2 Room 2130 European and American Art 17th “19th century The Pre “Raphaelites and Their Legacy place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Grenville L Winthrop Class of 1886 D G Rossetti 1877 signature/date lower left ~ Model Alexa Wilding accession number 1939 92 place of creation 729 http //www bmagic org uk/objects/1904P367 Sketch in Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery http //www harvardartmuseums org/art/230614 Fogg Art Museum <br /> http //www rossettiarchive org/docs/s248 rap html Rossetti Archive Custom license marker 2016 01 02 PD-old-auto-1923 1882 Uploaded with UploadWizard Paintings of females by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paintings of sirens Paintings of sitting women playing musical instruments outdoors String instrumentalists in art Flower crowns in art Alexa Wilding 1870s oil on canvas paintings in the United States European paintings in the Fogg Art Museum Paintings with over-cropped borders |