"How They Met Themselves" Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1851-1864 “A pair of lovers meet their doubles, outlined in light, in a wood at twilight—a sure presage of death” ( Surtees, <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="74" workcode="s118">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , 74 ).
<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 scene of this haunting work is medieval and the woodland setting perhaps recalls specifically Dante's “<quote>selva oscura</quote>”. </p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p> <quote>“Executed for Boyce during the artist's honeymoon in Paris (1860) to replace an earlier pen and ink drawing (1851), either lost or destroyed, of the same subject . . . . Called by Rossetti the ‘Bogie drawing’, it illustrates the legend of the Doppelgänger which had fascinated him since childhood</quote> (<bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="74" workcode="s118">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , vol. 1, 74 (no. 118)).

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

Grieve's comments on the picture's art historical relations, both contemporary and historical, are useful (see <hi rend="i">The Pre–Raphaelites</hi> [Tate 1984], 254 ).

Historical

Literary

The picture may be usefully compared with various of DGR's literary works, perhaps the “Willowwood” sonnets in particular.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

<hi rend="i">The Pre–Raphaelites</hi> [Tate 1984], 254. Sharp, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 136-139 Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 32. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 74 (no. 118).

Watercolour reproduction Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood J. Ernest Phythian 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. G. Stephens 1894 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 How They Met Themselves DGR 1860-1864 (circa) watercolour 1 How They Met Themselves DGR 1864 1864 watercolour 6 How They Met Themselves DGR 1851-1860 1851-1860 pen and ink and brush 4 How They Met Themselves DGR 1851 pen and ink 1 How They Met Themselves [print] DGR 1912 (circa) Colour print mounted on cream construction paper matte; opens like a card with (left) framing panel; picture is mounted on inside right panel. 1 How They Met Themselves [print] DGR 1860-1913 (circa) Charcoal and beige print on beige and grey board 1