"Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Double Work of Art" Exhibition Catalog by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, published by Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, 1976. First Edition; illustrated.

Soft cover [a few small stains on front and back covers]; 6.3/4" x 10.1/2"; ex-libris of Lynn O'Malley Crowder and Ashby Bland Crowder, Jr. inside front cover, 116 pages, very good condition.

"In the fall of 1848, while Rossetti was working on his first major painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, he wrote a sonnet to accompany the picture. He finished the painting in time to exhibit it at the Hyde Park Corner Free Exhibition in March 1849 and at that time wrote a second sonnet for the painting. When the painting was exhibited, the pair of sonnets was attached to the picture frame on a piece of gold-leaf paper as an accompanying textual component...

The typical Rossettian double work develops in the manner of "The Girlhood of Mary Virgin." That is to say, Rossetti executes a picture and then writes a poem" typically a sonnet or a pair of sonnets- that comments and elaborates upon the pictorial work...

Rossetti is such a literary visual artist that nearly all of his work inclines to a doubled character. At the limits of the core set of such works, therefore, one also finds a great many others that test the adequacy of those limits. Some of these are unexecuted double works; others are works for which only minimal, fragmentary, or uncompleted parts survive. For study purposes we have organized these kinds of work in the same structural way that we have organized the core set of double works. Doing so allows the student to keep track of the patterns of literary and pictorial doubling that is such a marked feature of all of Rossetti's artistic efforts." [excerpts from a review]

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