Death of Marmion Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1843 July
<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 wrote to his mother on 7 July 1843 that “There have been two meetings of the sketching club since your departure, for which I have made three drawings, one of which was the death of Marmion, and the other two were of the same subject—viz., the old Soldier relating his battles to the Parson, from ‘The Deserted Village’” (see <bibl> <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> </xref>, <pages>43. 2</pages> </bibl> </bibl>). Scott's poetry and fiction were great favorites with DGR, Goldsmith less so.</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/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p>The <xref doc="a.s8.rap">surviving sketch</xref> is inscribed by DGR at the botttom “Clara & de Wilton on the ramparts. Marmion Canto 6.”</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>WMR</author>, <xref doc="a.nd497.r8r8.rad" from="6" workcode="s8">DGR as Designer and Writer</xref>, <pages>6</pages> </bibl> <bibl> <author>WMR</author>, <xref doc="a.pr5246.a43.vol2.rad" from="6" workcode="s7">Family Letters</xref>, <pages>II. 6</pages> </bibl> <bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="2" workcode="s8"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. I, 2 (no. 8).

Death of Marmion DGR 1843 pen and brown ink 1