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DGR seems to have begun work on the subject in 1871 since the date of the pastel at the Ashmolean bears that date. He started serious work on the picture late in 1872 when he came to an agreement with Howell and Parsons (the painter and photographer who also worked as an art dealer) to buy the picture for 550 guineas (see DGR's letter to Howell of 1 November 1872, Fredeman, Correspondence, 72. 105 ). In this letter he comments: “I enclose extract from Lemprière copied by Dunn. You see the passage about the pomegranate. I may possibly write a sonnet and introduce it in one corner of the picture if suiting composition.” Two days later he wrote to his brother that “The Proserpine I am selling him is a second one I have begun. The first did not quite please me, but will sell as a separate thing by cutting out the head which is done. The second is very well started, and I fully expect to finish it soon and beg the tin” ( Fredeman , Correspondence, 72. 106 ). It seems this second picture was also deemed unsatisfactory by the artist, as was the third, which became the The Blanziore oil. The letter hints toward the multipying and sometimes catastrophic fortunes of what DGR called “this doomed picture” in a letter to Madox Brown of 6 January 1874, when he reported that the version he had done for Leyland (the now so-called seventh version) was smashed in railway transit. He went on to tell Brown about “the vicissitudes of this blessed picture”: “I have begun it on seven different canvases— to say nothing of drawings. Three were rejected after being brought very forward. The fourth cost me a quarrel with Parsons, & will be returned on my hands. The fifth has twice had its glass smashed & renewed, & has twice been lined to remedy accidents. The sixth has had its frame smashed twice & its glass once, was nearly rendered useless by an accident which happened while transferring it to a fresh strainer, & now has narrowly escaped total destruction” ( Fredeman , Correspondence, 74.4 ) An eighth version would come later, begun in 1881 and finished shortly before DGR's death.
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Dimensions: 38 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1871
Note: Monogram and date are located in the upper right corner of the image.
It is likely that this, the second version of Proserpine , was one of the three early versions that "were rejected after being brought very forward," as DGR described them in a letter to Ford Madox Brown (Fredeman, Correspondence, 74.4). None have survived intact, although the third version was cut down and transformed into Blanzifiore .

«» — - , 1873 . . Current Location: Collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber
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This painting was begun late in 1872, a fifth version of the picture sent to Charles Howell and Robert Parsons, with Frederick Leyland as the intended patron. In the first of a series of unfortunate mishaps, the face of Proserpine was rucked during the lining process; that is, the cloth was compressed, resulting in a number of unsightly folds. At first it was set aside and a new painting begun, but, according to Marillier, Rossetti soon returned to the work and restored it. However, the painting was misplaced while being transported to Kelmscott.


Dimensions: 49 3/4 x 24 in.
Signature: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date on Image: 1874
Note: The signature and the date are written in Italian on a scroll at the lower left: “Dante Gabriel Rossetti ritrasse nel capo d'anno del 1874”.
Proserpine (oil replica, eighth version) 1882 eighth version

Medium: oil Dimensions: 30 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. Signature: Dante Gabriele Rossetti Date on Image: 1882
Note: Signature and date are inscribed on a scroll at the lower left.
Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
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