Proserpine (For a Picture) (Texas MS, English version)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Proserpine
Author: DGR
Date of composition: 1877
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 1 leaf, verso blank
Provenance
Current Location: Harry Ransom Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin
Catalog Number: Ms File (Rossetti, DG) Works
Physical Description
Paper: smooth white unlined
Dimensions of Document: 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR wrote the two sonnets to accompany his painting, which dates from 1872, early in 1877, as his own note on the picture indicates. The Italian sonnet was written first, then the English version came as its translation.