Venus Victrix (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Venus Victrix
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: holograph pen and ink fair copy
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection
Catalog Number: Box 22
Physical Description
Paper: Lined white notebook paper
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
Bancroft Collection.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a late fair copy of the sonnet, with three minor textual corrections apparently made when DGR was preparing it for publication in his 1881 Ballads and Sonnets .