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Genevieve

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1848 August

Physical Description

Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: August 1848
Note: Monogrammed and dated at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1848 August
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no. 99)

Provenance

Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalog Number: 748
Purchase Price: present by Murray
Archival History: Given by DGR to Coventry Patmore; Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Lady Burne-Jones; Fairfax Murray

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Literary

Designed for the Cyclographic Society, this drawing was intended as an illustration to Coleridge's poem in which the heroine is called Genevieve (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , I.9).

Bibliography

Genevieve
Copyright: © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 23.
  2. image

    Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 22.
  3. image

    Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 10.
  4. image

    Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 16.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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