Paint Mixing Instructions(2) (Texas MS)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Author: DGR
Date of composition: 1867? 1862?
Type of Manuscript: corrected copy
Collation: 1 leaf
Note: Notes on both sides
Provenance
Current Location: Harry Ransom Research Center, U. of Texas
Catalog Number: Ms File (Rossetti, DG) Works "Lay in with violet carmine"
Physical Description
Paper: smooth white unlined
Dimensions of Document: 7 1/16 x 8 5/8 in.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a set of instructions for a studio assistant, probably set out in 1867 for his new assistant Treffrey Dunn, though it may date from late 1862 or early 1863 as instructions for his first assistant, William Knewstub. It describes a “palette for flesh”. See the other related set done about the same time, also at Texas.