The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra [print] Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra DGR print by Hollyer 1870-1913 (circa) from a photograph by Hollyer Delaware Art Museum photoprint (color) mounted on cream construction paper matte Print: 23.5 x 23.5 cm.; Board (paper): 40.6 x 30.6 cm. Color print mounted on cream construction paper matte; opens like a card with a (left) framing panel; picture is mounted on inside right panel. Pencil lines along and extending from the edges of the overlay frame on verso. A beige rectangle is pasted to the bottom right of the verso of the right panel (image mounted on recto). Brown bordering divides the rectangle into thirds. Writing, including the signature of Hollyer, appears in the rectangle. <artist/> <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>Commentary is not yet available for this image.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p/> </section> </commentaries> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc/> </ramheader> <text> <body> <div0 anchor="0.1" type="PICTURENOTES" n=""> <p> Water color painted in 1857, and exhibited in <lb/>1858 at Liverpool Academy. Owned by George Rae. <lb/> St. George appeared in Syria just in time to rescue <lb/> Princess Sabra, daughter of the King of Syria, from <lb/> being sacrificed to the dragon. St. George is rest- <lb/>ling from having slain the dragon, while the Princess, <lb/> now wholly his, leans on his breast, cutting off a long <lb/> dark lock of hair to bind upon his helmet. <lb/> One of Rossetti's early water colors beautifully ex- <lb/> ecuted. The dragon's head in the box, the wealth of <lb/> detail and pattern of the design, and the rich, golden <lb/> coloring are striking. <note>This is the black ink text of a white square of paper stapled to the verso of the right panel, bottom right edge.</note> <hi rend="c">Colour Print by Fredk. Hollyer</hi> <lb/> <hi rend="c">9 Pembroke Square, Kensington, W.</hi> <note>This is the text of a rectangular box pasted to bottom right of right panel verso. Brown bordering divides the rectangle into thirds. The top third contains the above text in brown type.</note> <title level="pic">The Marriage of St. George D.G. Rossetti.This is the text in cursive ink contained in the middle third of the rectangular box on verso. St. George Cursive pencil notation across top of overlay verso. 97 Pencil notation at top right corner of right panel verso. No. 2 Fredk Hollyer Signature of Hollyer and 2 in black ink. No. is rendered in brown type.