La Belle Dame Sans Merci Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848 April
<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>Keats was one of the most important influences on DGR's writing style as well as his imagination in general. This is the earliest of three different illustrations he conceived for Keats's famous poem <xref doc="a." link="dead"> <title level="wrk">“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” .

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

Production History

DGR made this drawing for the Cyclographic Society. A later watercolour is a different composition, as is the striking but unfinished drawing in the British Museum that illustrates stanza 5 of Keats's ballad (which is inscribed by DGR on the drawing).

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

This drawing, like the later watercolour, illustrates stanza 4 of Keats's ballad.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 16, 17, 53. Mégroz, <hi rend="i">Painter Poet of Heaven in Earth</hi> , 49. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 7 (no. 32).

Private Collection drawing Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 La Belle Dame Sans Merci DGR 1848 April April/48 pen and sepia with some pencil 1