Silence. For a Design Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1877 1870
picture notes <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>WMR was the first to print the textual component of this work—that is, the brief prose summary that DGR wrote to accompany the picture. At least two versions of the textual accompaniment were composed: <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" from="613" workcode="27p-1870.s214">a draft text</xref> that WMR found in one of DGR's notebooks; and a finished version that DGR sent to Jane Morris in a letter (June 1878), where he called the text “a label which is to be printed and put on” the picture: “Silence holds in her hand a branch of peach, the symbol used by the ancients; its fruit being held to resemble the human heart and its leaf the human tongue. With the other hand she draws together the veil encircling the shrine in which she sits.” (see <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> </xref> <pages>78. 118</pages> </bibl>).</p> <p>The drawing also exists in two versions, <xref doc="a.s214.rap">one in black and red chalk</xref> and <xref doc="a.s214a.rap">one in pencil</xref>, both dated 1870.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>The prose ekphrasis of the picture was written sometime after June 1877, as we can tell from the surviving <xref doc="a.27p-1870.dukems.rad">draft manuscript</xref>, which is sketched on the back of a frame maker's invoice. </p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Marillier</author>, <xref doc="a.nd497.r8.m33.rad" from="157" workcode="s214"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 157. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> I. 122 (no. 214)

1911 See WMR's note, (1911).
1911 Brooklyn Museum chalk drawing Silence. For a Design Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1877 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 Silence DGR 1870 1870 black and red chalk 2 Silence DGR 1870 July 28 28 July 1870 pencil 3 Silence [print] DGR 1875-1900 (circa) photoprint (black and cream) mounted on cream board 1 Silence [print] DGR 1875-1900 (circa) photoprint (red) on cream board 1