IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 125052 accession number: PB 71-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: xii, 159, [6], 164-335, [2] p ; 20 cm. object type: Inscription on title-page: "To my dearest Mother, this first copy. Sept. 1881. D G Rossetti." Inscription on verso of front endpage: "W. M. Rossetti from [?] Christina’s books 1894". Ms note by W. M. Rossetti on reverse of drawing: "The ink here is Christina’s writing (the other penciling mine) - Gabriel gave to his mother, for her 80th birthday a copy of Main’s Treasury of Sonnets, with his inserted design (well known) of "The Sonnet". The drawing over-page is an alternative design (I know no other form of it) for the same subject. Date wd be towards April 80". Ms note by Cockerell on verso of front endpage: "The table at the end is in DGR’s writing. The bookmarker was probably his mother’s. The design inserted in the middle of the book is by DGR, the writing in ink on the back being Christina’s with the pencil notes WMR’s. WMR gave it me 7 Dec 1901. SCC". object type: Tipped in on verso of t-p for "The House of Life": Drawing of "The Sonnet" by D. G. Rossetti with inscription on reverse: "size of Treasury of English Sonnets" in hand of Christina Rossetti; also note by W. M. Rossetti. Tipped in on advert at end of book: Table of contents in D. G. Rossetti’s hand. Various items found loose in book: Postcard of tomb of D. G. Rossetti sent to S. C. Cockerell with message dated 28.12.32; copy of a photograph "A game of chess with Dante Rossetti"; cutting of auction catalogue including reproduction of autograph ms The Sonnet; note on card in connection with the drawing; Royal Academy of Arts card indicating the book was loaned for their Rossetti Exhibition 1973; bookmarker with the word "Affection". object type: By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Contents: Ballads. -- The house of life. -- Lyrics, &c. -- Sonnets title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/125052 PEOPLE ------------------- Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, W. M. Cockerell, Sydney C. Surtees, Virginia TECHNIQUES ---------- printing TECHNIQUES ---------- drawing CATEGORIES ------ category: book category: drawing DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1881 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1881 CREATORS -------- maker: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel maker: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel maker: Rossetti, W. M. maker: Rossetti, Christina Georgina maker: Cockerell, Sydney C. maker: Ellis and White maker: Chiswick Press EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1973) IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/645/414/large_PB_71_2005_part2_mas.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/645/414/mid_PB_71_2005_part2_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/645/414/PB_71_2005_part2_mas.jpg height: 4008 pixels width: 5344 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/645/414/preview_PB_71_2005_part2_mas.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels