Desdemona's Death-Song Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1878-1881 (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>DGR intended this work for Frederick Leyland when he began thinking of the subject around 1872. He felt that the scene illustrated would suit the musical theme that dominated in Leyland's drawing room, and even envioned its placement above his patron's piano.</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 earliest sketches date from around 1870. DGR wrote to Leyland on March 18, 1872 that he was about to begin painting, but little progress had been made on the work between 1878 and 1882, when DGR's deteriorating health prevented him from returning to it.</p> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <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>This work illustrates Act IV, Scene III of Shakespeare's <hi rend="i">Othello</hi>. Desdemona sings the plaintive Willow Song while Emilia combs her hair.</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" link="dead" workcode="s254" from="331" to="332"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 331-332. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 195-96. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 150, 237 (no. 254). WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR as Designer and Writer</hi> , 106. Wood, <hi rend="i">Drawings of DGR</hi> , 90 (plate XXXVI).

Delaware reproduction Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Desdemona's Death Song; sketch DGR 1870-1880 (circa) pen and ink on handmadewhite stationery with 8mm mourning border on back 1 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies Special Issue: A Rossetti Cabinet: A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William E. Fredeman 1991 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Desdemona's Death–Song (finished design) DGR 1878-1881 (circa) pencil with traces of red chalk on grey paper, laid down 3 Desdemona's Death–Song (chalk study) DGR 1879-81 (circa) black chalk on pale–green paper 1 Desdemona's Death–Song (crayon design) DGR 1875 crayon 1 Desdemona's Death–Song (pen and ink design) DGR 1874 (circa) pen and brown ink 4 Desdemona's Death–Song (full–length figure) DGR 1879-81 (circa) 2 Desdemona's Death–Song (study for figure) DGR 1880 (circa) crayon 1 Desdemona's Death–Song (study for figure) DGR 1875 (circa) crayon 1 Desdemona's Death-Song (full–length seated figure) DGR 1870 (circa) pencil 1 Desdemona's Death–Song (unfinished head) DGR 1879–1881 (circa) oil on canvas grounded with Indian red (cut from larger canvas) 2 Desdemona's Death–Song (charcoal study for head) DGR 1879–81 (circa) charcoal on greenish paper 3 Desdemona's Death Song [print] Mansell 1878-1890 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on board 1 Desdemona's Death Song [print] Mansell 1879-1890 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on board 1 Desdemona's Death Song [print] Mansell 1879-1890 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on board 1 Desdemona's Death Song [print] Mansell 1857-1890 (circa) photoprint (black and white) mounted on board 1