Bocca Baciata

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1860 September

Physical Description

Medium: ink drawing
Dimensions: 6 x 6.3 cm.

Production Description

Production Date: 1860 September
Model: Fanny Cornforth

Provenance

Current Location: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This image is a small sketch DGR made for George Boyce. It comes at the beginning of a letter he wrote to Boyce on 7 Sept. 1860, in which he discusses the painting he was just completing.

Bibliography

  • The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts, Tate 1997, 96-97.
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 68-69 (no. 114).
Bocca Baciata
Copyright: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

Included Text

Monday

My dear Boyce

Above is the composition

of Fanny's portrait, which

you will see has taken

after all a rather

Venetian, aspect. “Them

be'ind's merrygoes,” as
Note: This is the text of the letter in which the sketch appears.
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