Love's Greeting

Love's Greeting Lines from the Roman de la Rose Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1850 1861, 1864 <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>The text and the related pictures translate, in a double sense, the first six and last five lines of a passage in Guillaume de Lorris's part of the <xref doc="a."> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Roman de la Rose</hi> (lines 1019-1031)—the description of the lady Beauty (lines 999ff.). The pictorial treatments build themselves from the drawing that DGR made as a frontispiece for his book of translations <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> . The relation is important, showing DGR's effort to illustrate, in several senses, the integrity of the transnational courtly love tradition.

Textual History: Composition

The translation was composed in 1850 and first published posthumously by WMR (see 1911 ). WMR published his text from the fair copy manuscript now in the Duke University library, which contains both the French text and the translation. DGR's partial draft translation is in a manuscript of working notes he used at an early stage of his work on <hi rend="i">The Early Italian Poets</hi> project.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Illustrating a central text from the courtly love tradition, the oil painting was probably first executed sometime late in 1861, perhaps 1862. The watercolour in the Tate was executed in ten days in April 1864 (see DGR's letter to Ernest Gambart, 26 April 1864, Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 64. 55 ). It varies the composition of the oil into a greater state of abstractness.

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 107, 136 Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , 79-80 (no. 126).

Duke University manuscript See WMR's note, (1911). Duke University manuscript Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) oil on panel 1861 The Early Italian Poets, Working Papers Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849? 0 Lines from the Roman de la Rose Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1850 0 Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 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 Roman de la Rose The Rose Garden DGR 1864 1864 watercolour 1 Love's Greeting DGR 1861 (circa) oil on panel 5 Love's Greeting [print] DGR 1857-1904 (circa) Charcoal grey and cream glossy print, mounted on cream/beige board. 1