Copyright: © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Dante and Beatrice
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1869 (middle of year)
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink sketch
Dimensions: 21.6 x 17.7 cm
Frame: unframed
Production Description
Production Date: 1869 (middle of year)
Provenance
Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Note: The sketch is imbedded in the
Museum's
manuscript
of “The House of Life”.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa205.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Charles Fairfax Murray titled this sketch “Dante & Beatrice” on the sheet's verso side, where DGR has a cancelled copy of his sonnet “ Willowwood I”. The sheet is bound up in the Fitzwilliam manuscript of “The House of Life”. It is possible that the drawing and the sonnet may have had some relation in DGR's mind.
The sketch is clearly a version of the left panel of The Salutation of Beatrice .
Production History
The sheet of paper bearing the sketch is one of several carrying texts that can be confidently dated around June 1869.