Hesterna Rosa Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ŠTate, London 2004 Hesterna Rosa DGR 1853 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, Pre–Raphaelite Exhibition, 1857 (no.60); R.A., 1883 (no.334); State Galleries of Australia, 1962 (no.66) Tate Gallery 4626 F.G. Stephens; Lt.–Colonel H. F. Stephens Bequest pen and ink 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. Dante Rossetti 1853 Inscribed below the drawing: “Composed—1850—drawn, and given to his P. R. Brother Frederic G. Stephens—1853”. The signature and date are not in DGR's hand and appear to have been added at different times. The plate reproduced in Wood's <hi rend="i">Drawings of D. G. Rossetti</hi> has only the signature. The same picture in Surtees has both the signature and date inscribed at lower left. Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 58. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 49. Wood, <hi rend="i">Drawings of DGR</hi> , plate xi. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 40. Delaware Art Museum print. <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>This drawing is the earliest known version of the work.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</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/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Angeli</author>, <xref doc="a.ac-angeli.nd497.r8.a774.rad" from="58" workcode="s57"> <hi rend="i">DGR con 107 illustrazioni</hi> </xref>, <pages>58</pages>.</bibl> <bibl> <author>Grieve</author>, <xref doc="a." link="dead">“Furniture in Rossetti,”</xref> <pages> 17-18</pages>.</bibl> <bibl> <author>Marillier</author>, <xref doc="a.nd497.r8.m33.rad" from="40" workcode="s57" to="41"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 40-41. Powell, “Object, Symbol, and Metaphor,” 16-29. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 21-22 (no. 57). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 49. Wood, <hi rend="i">Drawings of DGR</hi> , 41.

Below the image are eight lines, in two columns, of Elena's song from Sir Henry Taylor's <hi rend="i">Philip van Artevelde</hi> (Act v. sc. i). Quoth tongue of neither maid nor wife To heart of neither wife nor maid: “Lead we not here a jolly life Betwixt the shine and shade?” Quoth heart of neither maid nor wife To tongue of neither wife nor maid: “Thou wag'st, but I am worn with strife, And feel like flowers that fade.