Place de la Bastille, Paris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: Place de la Bastille, Paris
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1849
Collation: verso blank

Provenance

Current Location: Private Collection of Mark Samuels Lasner

Physical Description

Paper: cream wove paper, unlined, smooth finish
Dimensions of Document: 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in
Other Physical Features: paper torn from a larger sheet; embossed stamp at bottom

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is a fair copy of the poem that DGR wrote on his trip to the continent with Holman Hunt in the fall of 1849. This manuscript is a late copy, probably made by DGR in 1881 for publication that year in his Ballads and Sonnets volume.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Mark Samuels Lasner