Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1867
Jane Burden Morris <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>This work probably began as a <xref doc="a.s200b.rap">design</xref> for a <xref doc="a.sa117.s200.rap">stained glass window</xref>, one of two designs for the series illustrating “The Story of Tristram and Yseult” from Malory. The other panel was <xref doc="a.sa50a.rap"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i"/> The Fight of Sir Marhaus. These panels were “commissioned by Walter Dunlop, for the decoration of the entrance hall at Harden Grange, Bingley” ( Sewter, <hi rend="i">DGR's Designs for Stained Glass</hi> , 422 ). They later passed to the Bradford City Art Gallery.

The watercolour was executed later, in 1867, and purchased by T. H. McConnell. In May 1872 when McConnell asked DGR to help him sell it, DGR wrote to James Leathart, describing the picture as one of his best (see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 72. 30, 31, 35, 41 ). Leathart bought it.

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

On a loose leaf from one of his notebooks DGR wrote out the following text, which might have served the picture for a descriptive epigraph: “How Sir Tristram fetched La Belle Isoude out of Ireland to be King Mark's wife of Cornwall; and how in the ship, by misadventure, they two drank a love-drink, & so each loved other to their life's end.”

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 72. 30, 31, 35, 41. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 114. Sewter, <hi rend="i">DGR's Designs for Stained Glass</hi> , 422. Sharp, <hi rend="i">DGR: A Record and a Study</hi> , 161-162. Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 70. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , 114-115. WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 41-42.

Cecil Higgins Art Gallery watercolour Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion DGR 1867 watercolour 3 Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion DGR 1862? pencil 1 Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion DGR 1862? Perhaps sepia, or Indian ink, with watercolour 1 Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion DGR 1862 stained glass 1 Sir Tristram and La Bella Yseult Drinking the Love Potion [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) photoprint (charcoal/brown and cream) mounted on cream/beige board 1