Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber 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>“There is no clear evidence that this design was executed for a wall-bay (it is not clear where the window circles would have been introduced), but the possibility should not be dismissed of its having been designed after Ruskin offered to cancel a debt of 70 guineas, providing the artist decorated another panel. ‘...Or if you like to do another side of the Union I will consider that as 70 guineas off my debt: provided there's no absolute nonsense in it, and the trees are like trees, and the stones like stones’” (<xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="54" link="dead">Surtees</xref>, vol. 1, 54, quoting Cook and Wedderburn, <hi rend="i">Works of John Ruskin</hi>, 273)</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>This magnificent drawing may have been completed at the time of the Oxford murals project in the summer of 1857, perhaps intended for a subject for one of the murals DGR planned. (He completed only the painting of <xref doc="a.s93.raw"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">Sir Launcelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael</hi> ). DGR did not sell the drawing until February 1859, when it was bought by T. E. Plint (see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 59. 7 ).

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

The original frame, now lost, was inscribed with the following text from Malory's <hi rend="i">Morte d'Arthur</hi> (Book XX): “How Sir Laucelot was espied in the Queen's Chamber, and how Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred came with twelve knights to slay him.”

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Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 92. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 54 (no. 95). Wildman, <hi rend="i">Visions of Love and Life</hi> , 162-163.

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery drawing Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. G. Stephens 1894 0 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 Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber (replica) DGR 1857? (exact date unknown) pencil and blue wash 1 Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber DGR 1857 Oxford 1857 pen and black and brown ink 7 Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber (early study) DGR 1857 1857 pencil with touches of ink 1 Sir Launcelot in the Queen's Chamber [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) photoprint (charcoal/black and cream) mounted on cream/beige board 1