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Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, 146
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WMR, DGR Designer and Writer, 81
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Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 161-162
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Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 70.
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Surtees, A Catalogue
Raisonné,
112-13.
This collection contains 8 texts and images, including:
Lady Lever Art Gallery Oil
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The picture is a quotidian image of a Beatricean condition, a fact underscored in the legend affixed to the frame of the oil painting itself. The young woman is singing a song of Christ's birth. As with all of DGR's pictures in which musical instruments figure as part of the action, a transcendental order of reality is being represented as impinging on the scene.
Literary
The frame of the picture carries a legend that is taken from a carol DGR had incorporated many years before in a little booklet of carols he edited and transliterated from Middle English sources. We find a copy of this legend written into a notebook DGR was using at the time he was executing the picture, i.e., 1867.