Dante and Beatrice Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1869
Dante and Beatrice DGR 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 with the drawing is bound up in the Fitzwilliam manuscript of <hi rend="i">The House of Life</hi> . It is possible that the drawing and the sonnet may have had some relation in DGR's mind. Since the drawing represents the same scene as that depicted in the left panel of the early version of <hi rend="i">The Salutation of Beatrice</hi> , this may be a sketch toward a picture that DGR conceived but never executed.

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The sheet of paper bearing the sketch is one of several carrying texts that can be confidently dated around June 1869.

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Fitzwilliam Museum drawing The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1845 - 1881 0 The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1845 - 1881 0 Dante and Beatrice Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 (middle of year) pen and ink sketch 1