Fragment (from “On Mary's Portrait Which I Painted Six Years Ago”)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1847
Type of Manuscript: draft
Collation: 1 page
Note: one small manuscript leaf
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Duke University Library
Catalog Number: Rossetti Writings III. Fragment
Physical Description
Paper: white unruled
Dimensions of Document: 3 x 4 7/8 in.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the Special Collections Library, Duke University
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the only known text of these verses, which are clearly a rejected text once intended for “On Mary's Portrait Which I Painted Six Years Ago”.
Textual History: Composition
The 1849 composition date is conjectural.