Proserpine

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882) Proserpine signed and dated ‘D. G. ROSSETTI fecit anno 1878’ (on a scroll lower left) and inscribed with a sonnet in Italian (on a cartellino upper right) pencil, watercolor and bodycolor heightened with gum arabic on paper mounted on a wooden stretcher 30 ½ x 14 ¾ in. (77.5 x 37.5 cm.) Executed in 1878. in the original frame designed by Rossetti