Prince's Progress (title page design) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1865 December
<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>DGR's <xref doc="a.s185.raw">other illustration</xref> for his sister's book of poetry, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">The Prince's Progress and Other Poems</hi> (1866), carries a strong personal inflection, and the same is true of this woodcut for the title page, which quotes line 3 of the title poem, “The Prince's Progress”: “The long hours go and come and go”.

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

Production History

For full details see the commentary for the production history of the frontispiece. See also W. J. Linton's woodcut made from DGR's drawing for the titlepage..

Reception

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Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Kooistra, <hi rend="i">Christina Rossetti and Illustration</hi> , 76-80 Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 117-118 Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , 109-110 (no. 186).

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery drawing Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Prince's Progress (study for the title page) DGR 1865 December pencil, pen and Indian ink 1 Prince's Progress (study for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pen and Indian ink 1 Prince's Progress (design for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pencil 1 Prince's Progress (sketch for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pencil 1 Prince's Progress (sketch for the title page) DGR 1866 1866 pencil 1 Prince's Progress (sketch for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pen and ink over pencil 1 Prince's Progress (rough sketch for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pen and brown ink on writing paper shaded with finger on writing paper 1 Prince's Progress (tracing for the title page) DGR 1865-6 red chalk on tracing paper 1 Prince's Progress (tracing for the title page) DGR 1865-6 pencil and red chalk on tracing paper 1 “The long hours go and come and go” DGR 1865 woodcut 1 The Prince's Progress DGR 1865-1866 (circa) pencil on paper 1