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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Anima   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1828–1882)  wikidata:Q186748 s:en:Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti q:en:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alternative names
Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death 12 May 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 9 April 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London United Kingdom
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q186748
Title
Anima
Description
English: A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
Of its own intricate fulness reverent:
Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
As Day or Night prevail; and let Time see
It's flowering crest impearled and orient.
A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals
The soul,—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:—
Whether for tribute to the august appeals
Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,
It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,
In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death.
Date 27 April 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-04-27T00:00:00Z/11
Medium pen and ink
Dimensions 10 × 19 cm (3.9 × 7.4 in)
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Current location
Nicholas Rossetti
Object history Given by the artist and his sister Christina to their mother Frances Maria Lavinia Polidori Rossetti on the occasion of her 80th birthday, 27 April 1880;
Thence by descent to her son William Michael Rossetti, by whom bequeathed to his son Gabriel Arthur Rossetti in 1919 and thence to his son Harold Ford Rossetti and by further descent to the present owner
Exhibition history London, Royal Academy and Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Painter and Poet, 1973, no.365
Inscriptions

Signature, dedication and date bottom left:

DG Rossetti pro Matre fecit Apr:27.1880
Title top left:
ANIMA
References Rossetti Archive
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2014, lot 3

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