By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Genevieve
1848
Dimensions: 27.3 cm x 14 cm
Collection Categories
Burne-Jones Collection & Library, By Other Artists/Individuals/Makers/Institutions etc
Signed with monogram and dated AUGUST 1848 lower right

Designed for the Cyclographic Society, this drawing was intended as an illustration to Coleridge's poem in which the heroine is called Genevieve (Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , I.9).

Virginia Surtees (Miss Virginia Bell)
06/04/2024

19 September 1898

I also have the "Genevieve" (2) of 1848 that belonged to Coventry Patmore, who presented it to Burne-Jones a few years back and lady Burne-Jones gave it to me the other day. E.B.J. offered it to me the last time I aw him but I refused it then not to seem graspimng!

Charles Fairfax Murray
06/04/2024

Tuesday, November 1st., 1898

... If you have this early one and the "Genevieve" (2) reproduced please see that the reproducer sends me copies.

Samuel & Mary Bancroft Jr
06/04/2024
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore 1848 gifted to him by Rossetti
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1898 gifted to him by Coventry Patmore
Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1898-1898 gifted by her to Fairfax Murray
Charles Fairfax Murray 1898
The Fitzwilliam Museum 748 presented by Fairfax Murray
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Frederic George Stephens 1894
p. 16
Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli (Helen Maria Madox 'Elena' Angeli (Rossetti)) 1906
illus p. 11
Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols 1971 Virginia Surtees (Miss Virginia Bell) 1971
vol. I p. 9 vol. II pl. 23
Object, Symbol, and Metaphor Professor Kirsten Hoving Powell, Professor Emma Powell 1993
pp. 16-29
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. II between pp. 102-103 and pls. XXI, XXVII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 112, 115, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-45, 47-48, 45-71, 75-122, 124-131, 133-168, 170-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 237-242, 244-249, 251-252, 254-255, 257, 254-262, 264-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-351, 354, 357-361, 363-384, 386-389, 393-396, 398-400, 402, 404-416, 418-446, 451-463, 464-472, 474, 476, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 490-502, 504-518, 520, 522-530, 534, 536