The Salutation of Beatrice Salutatio Beatricis Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa The Salutation of Beatrice DGR 1859 Hogarth Club, 1860; R.A., 1883 (no.289); Rome, International Exhibition 1911; Nat. Gallery of Canada, Victorian Artists in England, 1965 (no.117). A Cabinet at Red House, Bexley Heath, the home of William Morris and his wife. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 6750 William Morris; Sold to Sir Frederick Burton, 1865; Sold for £367. 10 s. to James Leathart, 1867; T.H. Leathart; Bought by F. J. Tennant for £250; Michael Tennant; Sold to Leger Galleries in 1957 for £500; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa oil oil on two panels 29 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. each panel The two panels were removed from a cabinet in 1865 then framed together; separated by a partition. The partition was then painted with a second Dantis Amor by DGR. monogram June 15-25 1859; 1859 Left panel: monogram and date on lower right. Right panel: monogram and date on lower left. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 172. Ash, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> . Phythian, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</hi> , 30. Phythian, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</hi> , 31. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 86. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 11. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 12. Gowans and Gray, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of DGR</hi> , 14. Gowans and Gray, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of DGR</hi> , 15. Hollyer print, Delaware Art Musuem. Hollyer print, Delaware Art Musuem. Hollyer print, Delaware Art Musuem. Red Lion Mary Red Lion Mary sat for the woman on the left in the left panel. Jane Burden Morris Jane Burden Morris was the model for the middle woman in the left panel. Fanny Cornforth Fanny Cornforth sat for the woman on the right in the left panel. <artist/> <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>Commentary is not yet available for this image.</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="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Ash</author>, <xref doc="a.nd497.r8a9.rad" link="dead" workcode="s116"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> . Gowans and Gray, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of DGR</hi> , 14-15. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 86-88. Phythian, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</hi> , 30-31. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , viii, 11-12. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 70-71 (no. 116). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 172.

Inscribed on the left panel above Beatrice's head: ‘Domicella Beatrix de Portinaris’; above the head of Dante: ‘Dantes de Alghieris’. The date ‘9 JUN: 1290’ is written above the central oval and below it reads, ‘QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!’

Inscribed on the right panel on a scroll in each upper corner are the words ‘Hortus Eden’ and behind Dante's head: ‘Poeta Dantes de Alghieris de Florentia’. Rossetti wrote behind the head of Beatrice: ‘ Beata Beatrix’.

Inscribed on the frame in the upper center are the words ‘SALUTATIO BEATRICIS’. In the lower center, Rossetti wrote: ‘IN TERRA ET IN EDEN.’. Above the left panel are the words; ‘Questa mirabile Donna apparve a me, vestita di colore bianco, in mezzo di due gentile donne di piu lunga etade (VITA NUOVA. Cap: II.)’. Below the left panel, he wrote ‘Negli occhi porta la mia Donna amore’. He wrote above the right panel on the frame, ‘Sovra candido vel cinta d'uliva, Donna m'apparve sotto verde manto Vestita di color di fiamma viva. (DIV. COM:Perg:C.XXX)’. Below this right panel he wrote, ‘Guardami ben: ben son, ben son Beatrice’.