La Bella Mano (For a Picture) (Delaware fair copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: La Bella Mano (per un Quadro)
Author: DGR
Date of composition: 1875
Type of Manuscript: fair copy manuscript
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Delaware Art Museum
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is one of three surviving manuscripts of the Italian sonnet, two of which—including this one—are fair copies. This copy has an alternative reading for line 3.