Fair Rosamund Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1861
Fanny Cornforth <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 painting depicts Rosamund the Fair (1140-1176), Henry II's mistress, staring over her balcony in expectation of the arrival of the king. The red silk cord she holds hanging from the balcony guides her lover to her room.</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>DGR worked at the picture in mid-1861, borrowing Georgiana Burne-Jones's coral necklace at least twice during June and July. He told Alexander Gilchrist on 11 July that the picture was finished (see <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 61. 48, 50 ).

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Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 50, 108 WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 40 Sharp, <hi rend="i">DGR: A Record and A Study</hi> , 172-173. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 81 (no. 128). Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 185 (no. 96).

National Museum of Wales oil painting Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 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 Fair Rosamund DGR 1861 1861 oil 6 Fair Rosamund monogram 1861 1861 coloured chalks 1 Fair Rosamund [print] DGR 1861-1913 (circa) Charcoal/brown and beige print, mounted on cream/beige board 1