Perlascura: Twelve Coins for One Queen
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“En algún lugar” and “Reflections”
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Drawings and Poems for Jane Burden Morris
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Friday, August 1878
Mrs.William Morris
Manor House
Kelmscott
Lechlade
My dear Janey
Did I tell you I thought of bringing out some dozen autotypes
of you in a book - done on a moderate scale so as to make a large
folio shape. I might call them
Perlascura
Twelve Coins of one Queen
And quote a motto from Dante's first canzone in the Vita Nuova:
"Color di perla quasi informa, quale
Convieni a donna aver non fuor misura:
Ella è quanto di ben puo far natura:
Per esempio di lei beltà si prova"
With my translation:
She hath the paleness of the pearl that's fit
In a fair woman, so much and no more:
She is as high as Nature's skill can soar:
Beauty is tried by her comparison.
The expression "quasi informa" means that the pearl-colour clothes
her as it were with a garment. This is rather obsolete in language and
I generalized it.
I should put a sonnet to each autotype
Your affectionate
Gabriel
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In August 1878 DGR wrote to Jane Morris about an idea to publish "...some dozen autotypes of you in a book done on a moderate scale so as to make a large folio. . . . I should put a sonnet to each autotype ..."
The project never materialized, but we can see much of what DGR had in mind.
The idea emerged from DGR's rather extensive involvement with another project ”to have a number of his drawings and paintings reproduced in photographic - autotype -
Frederick Shields proposed this scheme to DGR in 1877 (or possibly late in 1876). Shields was a partner in the English Picture Publishing Company, which set about to publish photographic reproductions of the work of contemporary and earlier British artists. The company became the Fine Art Autotype Company, and among its first reproductions were several by DGR. His partners were Charles Rowley and George Milner, and the company operated out of Manchester.
An initial series of quality-control tests were done on the chalk drawing of Jane Morris, Silence (black and red chalk 1870). Proofs were eventually pulled and the reproduction was published in 1877, the first (apparently) of a series.
Many but not all involved images of Mrs. Morris. WMR said that the first to be published was the drawing of Mrs. Morris figured as La Donna Della Finestra (pastel 1870).
Discussions during 1877 with Shields and his partners led to decisions to make autotypes of the following works that featured Mrs. Morris:
Perlascura (pastel 1871); Water Willow (coloured chalks on pale green paper 1871); La Pia de' Tolomei (chalks 1868); a study for The Salutation of Beatrice (pastel 1876); Pandora (chalks 1869); Mariana (chalks 1868); Proserpine (pastel and chalks 1871); Astarte Syriaca, (mauve and blank ink 1875 or pastel on pale green paper 1875); Mnemosyne (the finished chalk drawing 1876).
We can't be sure about any other images of Mrs. Morris that DGR may have thought to include in the Perlascura series. The following are likely candidates: La Donna Della Fiamma (chalks 1870); The Portrait, (black and red chalk 1869); The Portrait (alternative title The Blue Silk Dress, oil 1868); The Roseleaf (pencil 1870); Reverie (chalks 1868)
The subtitle of the series makes an interesting cross reference to DGR's Introductory Sonnet for the 1881 text of The House of Life. In this case, each of these projected double works would have been the equivalent of a coin of tribute to Jane Morris.
DGR started or completed seven of the projected twelve sonnets, two of which were his translations from the Vita Nuova of (from chapters 26 and 36):
" Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare" (My lady looks so gentle and so pure) and
"Color d'amore e di pietà sembianti" : (Love's pallor and the semblance of deep ruth).
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