Rossetti artwork bought from second-hand bookshop in Edinburgh finds new life in exhibition

A chalk drawing by 19th century artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which was bought from a second-hand bookshop in Edinburgh for £75 is to go on display. The artwork, called Ricorditi Di Me, Che Son La Pia (from Dante’s Purgatorio), has not been exhibited in public in 150 years. Rossetti featured the model Alexa Wilding, whom he first met in the street, in the 1868 study for a painting he completed in 1881.