Proserpina. For a Picture (prose ekphrasis, Duke Manuscript)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Proserpina.
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1874
Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy
Collation: 3 pages
Note: one sheet of note paper folded into four pages
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Duke University Library
Catalog Number: Rossetti Writings. XIII Proserpine
Physical Description
Paper: white unlined
Watermark: ROYAL IRISH LINEN/MARCUS WARD/& CO.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The manuscript of this prose ekphrasis of DGR's painting resides in the Duke University Library. It was first published by WMB—presumably from this manuscript— in 1911 (page 635), where it is dated 1874.