The First Madness of Ophelia Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1864 April
<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/> </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 told Ernest Gambart on 26 April 1864 that this picture was “now nearly done” (see <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 64.55). The picture seems to have used two of the figures from DGR's 1855 <hi rend="i">La Belle Dame Sans Merci</hi> as a basis for this composition.

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Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 64.55. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 136. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 97 (no. 169).

Oldham Art Gallery and Museum watercolour Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 The First Madness of Ophelia DGR 1864 April April 1864 watercolour 2