Exhibit:

House of Life Exhibit

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Rossetti, Sonnet, Illustration
Rossetti, Sibylla Palmifera
Rossetti, Lady Lilith painting
DGR, Beata Beatrix
Rossetti, Jane Morris painting Blue Silk Dress

Parent Resource

The Sonnet

photo of DGRThis gallery has been created to accompany a critical edition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Sonnet," the first poem of DGR's House of Life. The following images illustrate DGR's "double works," which are associated texts and images; they are discussed in the critical introductions to the critical edition.

Image: portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer (London: Cassell and Company, 1898). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_001.jpg

Images in this Exhibit

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sonnet (1880, illustration)
Rossetti, Sonnet, Illustration

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

This is the original, pen-and-ink illuminated text drawing that Dante Gabriel Rossetti made for his mother's birthday. The drawing was laid into the front of a copy of David Main's Treasury of English Sonnets (1881), which had laid into the back a birthday poem by Christina Rossetti. Brother and sister then presented the...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sibylla Palmifera (painting), 1866-70
Rossetti, Sibylla Palmifera

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 38 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.

Frame: Gilded flats set between tiered mouldings, with roundels centered on each flat; the roundels are stylized concentric circles. This was a design DGR used from about 1868.

Production Description...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (painting), 1868
Rossetti, Lady Lilith painting

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 37 1/2 x 32 in.

Frame: Wide gilt flat with grain showing, and with a narrow outer molding also gilded; circular bosses centered on each side.

Date on Image: 1868

Note: Signature and date are found on...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-1870)
DGR, Beata Beatrix

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

This work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is often (and not incorrectly) read as a memorial to his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. It is more than that, however. He had begun it on canvas years before his wife's death in early 1862, as he told Ellen Heaton in a letter of 22 December 1863 (see Surtees 1.93). Drawings of all kinds from as...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jane Morris (The Blue Silk Dress), 1868
Rossetti, Jane Morris painting Blue Silk Dress

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

General Description

Date: 1868

Model: Jane Burden Morris

Scholarly Commentary Introduction 

Though not technically a double work, the painting is connected to many of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most central writings and pictures. The all but explicit connection to...