Love's Greeting Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Love's Greeting DGR 1861 (circa) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Walter Dunlop; William Graham; Sold at Christie's Graham sale, April 3, 1886 (lot 101) for £86; F.R. Leyland; Sold at Christie's Leyland sale, May 28, 1892 (lot 60) for £194; Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum oil on panel 22 1/4 x 24 in. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 195. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , [106b recto]. Gowans and Grey, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of DGR</hi> , 19. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 16. Princep print , Delaware Art Museum <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>Iconograpic</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>Fontana</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="es">“Representations of the Kiss” , 80-88. Gowans and Gray, <hi rend="i">Masterpieces of Rossetti</hi> , 19. Marillier, <hi rend="i">An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 107. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabrial Rossetti</hi> , xiv, 16. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 79-80 (no. 126). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 195.

There are various inscriptions on the painting. Above the head of the figures, Rossetti wrote: ‘Amator’, ‘Amata’. And above the head of Love is written: ‘Amor’. Ribbons are inscribed above and below the painting. The upper ribbon reads: ‘Madonna, Dio vi fece, Dio vi guardi, Madonna Dio v'onori’. The lower ribbon reads: ‘Dio v'innalzi, Madonna, Dio vi dia le voglie vostre’.