Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1828-05-12 - 1882-04-09
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to William Houghton Clabburn
Collection
Call Number: MSS 31
Overview:
The collection comprises 11 letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William H. Clabburn written from 1863 to 1865. The last of these is addressed to Clabburn's wife, Hannah Louisa. The letters are accompanied by 8 envelopes addressed to Clabburn by Rossetti. Rossetti’s letters primarily relate to Clabburn’s commission of an oil replica of Rossetti’s Mary Magdalen at the door of Simon the Pharisee. The correspondence records in detail Rossetti’s artistic process...
Dates:
1863-1865