Design for a Sofa Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1860
<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>This sofa design is one of two, and possibly three, that DGR made around 1860-1862. This sofa was built and exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition. <xref doc="a.sa67.raw">Another sofa</xref>, also built to DGR's design, was made for DGR himself and eventually passed into the possession of Fairfax Murray. The latter may be the same sofa for which DGR made a <xref doc="a.sa70.rap">preliminary sketch</xref>. </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/> </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="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="77" workcode="s122a"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 77 (no. 122a). Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 226-227 (no. 168).

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