Mary Magdalene Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1877
<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>Sometime late in the 1870s, perhaps 1879, DGR projected a two-panelled <xref doc="a.sa262.raw">predella</xref> for the picture, showing the Magdalene in two of her famous encounters with Jesus: washing his feet before his crucifixion and helping take his body down from the cross. This predella was never executed.</p> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p>The jar held by the Magdalene contains the oil with which she annointed the feet of Jesus shortly before he underwent his Passion and Crucifixion.</p> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Benedetti</author>, <xref doc="a.nc242.r646.rad" from="328" to="329" workcode="1-1877.s249" link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 328-329. Fontana, “Mary Magdalene”, 88-100. Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of Rossetti , 56. Marillier, <hi rend="i">An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 192. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 148 (no. 250). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 376.

Delaware Art Museum oil painting Small Notebook 3 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871-1879? 0 Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 Mary Magdalene DGR 1877 1877 oil 12 Mary Magdalene DGR 1867 crayon 2 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1904 Brown and cream print, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1877-1913 (circa) Charcoal/brown and cream print, mounted on board that is fitted to the size of the print 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Charcoal/black, grey and white print, mounted on cream board 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1877-1913 (circa) Glossy photograph, maroon/brown and grey, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1877-1913 (circa) Glossy photograph, maroon/brown and white, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1904 Black/brown and cream print, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1904 Charcoal, brown, grey and white print, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1904 Charcoal/beige and cream print, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1867-1913 (circa) Charcoal/grey and beige print, mounted on beige board 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1877-1913 (circa) Glossy photograph; brown/maroon, grey and white, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1877-1913 (circa) Charcoal/grey and white print, not mounted 1 Mary Magdalene [print] DGR 1878-1900 (after 1877) 1877 Glossy black and white photograph of picture and frame situated on cushion, leaning against the exterior paneling of a house. Photo is mounted on beige board. 1