The Virgin Mary, Auchinleck Manuscript
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [Untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1847
Type of Manuscript: holograph fair copy
Person to Whom the Manuscript was Assigned: DGR
Collation: 1 page
Provenance
Current Location: Library of the South African National Gallery
Physical Description
Paper: pale blue unlined
Dimensions of Document: 8 3/4 x 7 in
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Published with the permission of Iziko Museums of Cape Town
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
As WMR's pencil note along the right margin of the manuscript indicates, this early work suggests that the poem on the reverse, “The Lady's Lament”, may have been drafted sometime in 1847. It could belong to 1848, however.