Proserpine (first version)

In a letter to William Michael Rossetti ( Family Letters , II. 265), DGR explained that he had been unsatisfied with his first attempt of this subject, and had discarded it. At the time of the letter, the second version was already well underway.

• Fredeman, Correspondence, 72.106, 74.4.
• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 131.
• WMR, Family Letters , vol. 2, 265.