The Day-Dream
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: The Day-Dream
Author: DGR
Date of composition: 1880
Type of Manuscript: pencil draft
Collation: one page
Note: verso blank except for inscription by F. G. Stephens
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Mark Samuels Lasner
Note: The verso inscription reads: “Autographs of D. G. Rossetti,
sent to me for use in articles I wrote for the Athenaeum. F. G.
S.” Stephens is referring to the three manuscripts preserved
in a folder with two others associated with pictures by DGR:
a prose description of
La Pia
and a
prose description
of
The Salutation of Beatrice
, all three of which were sold as a single lot by Anderson
Galleries in the William Harris Arnold sale.
Physical Description
Paper: white wove, ruled, smooth finish
Watermark: J ALLEN & SONS
SUPER FINE
Dimensions of Document: 8 7/8 X 7 1/16 in
Other Physical Features: leaf torn from one of DGR's typical notebooks
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Mark Samuels Lasner
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The manuscript seems to be an account of the picture that DGR wrote out for someone, perhaps for Constantine Ionides, who commissioned the painting in 1879. The manuscript obviously postdates the framing of the completed picture.