The Death of Lady Macbeth Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1875 (circa)
<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>The date of the three principal drawings is uncertain. Sharp assigns them to 1874, Surtees to 1875. Apparently DGR made his finished drawings in preparation for a large canvas, but he never undertook the project, in spite of the fact that Howell had a buyer for such a picture, as he wrote to DGR in December 1875: “What do you want for Lady Macbeth and when will it be begun and finished? Grant wants an important picture, and I am told (not by him) that it must be a certain size, as it is going into a drawing room where there will be no other pictures. Write to me, describe the picture, describe more or less the size, and name your price, and time by which you think it can be finished” (see <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 75.230 ).

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

“Filled with a sense of frenzy and nightmarish flux. . ., [the] influences can be seen from Fuseli and his follower Theodore von Holst” (see Grieve, <hi rend="i">The Pre–Raphaelites, Tate 1984</hi> , 308 ).

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Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 162-163. Sharp, <hi rend="i">DGR: A Record and a Study</hi> , 212-214. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 140-141. <hi rend="i">The Pre–Raphaelites, Tate 1984</hi> , 308-309.

Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery pencil drawing Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Notebook Pages (Notebook I, Duke Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1863-1869 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 The Death of Lady Macbeth DGR 1875 (circa) pencil 4 The Death of Lady Macbeth DGR 1875 (circa) pencil 1 The Death of Lady Macbeth DGR 1875 circa pen and sepia wash 3 The Death of Lady Macbeth (study) DGR 1876 1876 chalk 1 The Death of Lady Macbeth [print] 1857-1890 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on brownish board 1 The Death of Lady Macbeth [print] 1875 -1913 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on brownish board 1