La Bella Mano (For a Picture)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [La Bella Mano]
Author: DGR
Date of composition: 1875
Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy
Collation: 1 page, verso blank
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas
Catalog Number: MS File Rossetti, DG (Works)
Physical Description
Paper: smooth white unlined
Watermark: none
Dimensions of Document: 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center at the University of
Texas at Austin.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
While the manuscript is not dated, its condition suggestes that it was written near the time the painting was completed.