Bocca Baciata Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin Bocca Baciata DGR 1860 September Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin ink drawing 6 x 6.3 cm. Fanny Cornforth 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 discussesthe painting he was just completing.

Bibliographic

<hi rend="i">The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts</hi> , Tate 1997, 96-97. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 68-69 (no. 114).

Monday My dear BoyceAbove is the compositionof Fanny's portrait, whichyou will see has taken after all a ratherVenetian, aspect. “Thembe'ind's merrygoes,” asThis is the text of the letter in which the sketch appears.