Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival Receiving the Sanc Grael Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1857
<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>This design for one of the bays in the Oxford Union was not carried out by DGR. “The incident is that of the attainment of the Holy Grail by Sir Galahad who reverently receives it, while leading forward Sir Percival, whose sister lies dead on the ground beside him” (<bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="53" workcode="s94" link="dead">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> I. 53 ). In 1864 DGR returned to the subject to execute the arresting watercolour commissioned by Ellen Heaton and now in the Tate (see DGR's letters to Heaton of June, July, and October 1864, Fredeman, <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a." link="dead">Correspondence</xref> </hi> 64. 86; 64. 94; 64. 138 ).

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

Production History

The finished design for the mural is in the British Museum, along with an unfinished study.

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

See also the commentary for the mural that DGR did execute for the Oxford Debating Union, <hi rend="i">Sir Launcelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael</hi> .

Historical

Literary

While he was involved with these pictorial commissions, DGR began to work at his unfinished poem “God's Graal” , of which various drafts and notes survive in pages from DGR's notebooks. He worked from various Arthurian sources, not just Malory.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 53 (no. 94).

Tate Gallery watercolour Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way DGR 1864 1864 watercolour 1 Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival Receiving the Sanc Grael. The Attainment of the Sanc Grael DGR 1857 pen and brown ink 3 Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival Receiving the Sanc Grael (unfinished study) The Attainment of the Sanc Grael DGR 1857 pen and brown ink; Indian ink for Sir Galahad's head; some brown wash over faint red chalk 2 Study for The Attainment of the Sanc Grael [print] DGR 1857-1890 (circa) Copper/brown and beige print, mounted on olive board 1