Hesterna Rosa Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial Hesterna Rosa DGR 1865 Manchester Royal Institute 1882 (no.249); B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.38); Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887 (no.1791) Frederick W. Craven. 125 guineas Bancroft Collection, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware Frederick W. Craven; Christie's sale May 18, 1895 (lot 46), £215; Fairfax Murray; Major C. S. Goldman; Agnew watercolour 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. monogram 1865 The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right. <artist/> <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>Sharp quotes the following from a letter of DGR to Frederick Craven: “The [lighting] effect is that of a lamp light interior towards dawn when (as in twilight) all objects seem purely and absolutely blue by contrast with the warm light therein” (see <bibl> <author>Sharp</author>, <xref doc="a." link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 141 ).

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Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 41, 140. Sharp, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 140-142 Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 22 (no. 57.R.1). Surtees, <hi rend="i">Diaries of George Price Boyce</hi> , 41.