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Special Collections Library.
Design for Spiral Brooch
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1863-1869
Production Description
Production Date: 1863-1869
Provenance
Current Location: Duke University Library
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa915.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This jewelry design is one of DGR's most striking. The finished piece was used effectively in several of his best paintings, perhaps most memorably in Monna Vanna . This, the earliest known sketch, was found in a group of disbound notebook pages comprising (for the most part) the remains of an integral notebook that DGR used between 1863-1869 for various kinds of memoranda. On the page are three preliminary designs for the brooch.