Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Silence. For a Design
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1877
Type of Manuscript: draft
Scribe: DGR
The full Rossetti Archive record for this transcribed document is available.
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Manuscript Addition: 22
Editorial Description: Unknown notation in upper right corner, possibly by WMR
In an antique representation
She holds has in one hand the
fruit of peach by which
the ancients symbolized
Silence—the fruit being
held to resemble the
human heart & the leaf
the human tongue.
With the other hand
she has keeps closed
the opening of a suspended veil
suspended in her
shrine.
She holds has in one hand the
fruit of peach by which
the ancients symbolized
Silence—the fruit being
held to resemble the
human heart & the leaf
the human tongue.
With the other hand
she has keeps closed
the opening of a suspended veil
suspended in her
shrine.
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Note: The text on this page is WMR's note to the ekphrasis on the previous page. It is
written along the right margin of this page. The printed text on the reverse side, and
visible as bleed through on the present page, gives the name and address of a frame
maker, [Freder?]ick Bartram of Euston Square, London.
Gabriel's writing must apply to his design “Silence”.
Transcription Gap: printed matter (text is a frame maker's invoice)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
27p-1870.dukems.rad.xml
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