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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Return of Tibullus to Delia   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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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
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q186748
Title
The Return of Tibullus to Delia
label QS:Len,"The Return of Tibullus to Delia"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Retour de Tibulle chez Délie"
Description
English: Rossetti depicts the passage in Tibullus (Elegies, I, 3, 82-92) when Tibullus bids to his mistress to await his return:
'Live chaste, dear love; and while I'm far away,
Be some old dame thy guardian night and day.
She'll sing thee songs, and when the lamp is lit,
Fly the full rock and draw long threads from it,
So, unannouced, shall I come suddenly,
As 'twere a presence sent from heaven to thee.
Then as thou art, all long and loose they hair,
Run to me, Delia, run with thy feet bare.'
Français : Rossetti s'inspire du passage des Elégies de Tibulle (I, 3, 82-92) dans lequel Tibulle demande à sa maîtresse d'attendre son retour (traduction de C. L. Mollevaut, 1808) :

Ma Délie, à jamais conserve-moi ton cœur ;
Que l'esclave qui veille à ta sainte pudeur,
De ce chaste dépôt gardienne vigilante,
Le soir, à la clarté d'une lampe tremblante,
Guide un fil délié vers son léger fuseau,
Et trompe tes ennuis par un récit nouveau ;
Morphée alors, voilant tes beaux yeux d'un nuage
Doucement de tes mains fera glisser l'ouvrage.
Soudain j'arrive, j'entre, et je m'offre à tes yeux ;
Je te parais tombé de la voûte des cieux.
Viens, vole dans mes bras : ah ! ton sein nu, tes larmes,
Tes longs cheveux épars doublent encor tes charmes.

Date 1867
date QS:P571,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor
medium QS:P186,Q22915256
Dimensions height: 19.1 in (48.5 cm); width: 23.1 in (58.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,19.125U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,23.125U218593
L. S. Lowry, R. A.
Object history Sold at the Christie's Craven sale, May 18, 1895, lot 49, for £278; Fairfax Murray; sold at the Sotheby's sale of July 7, 1965 (lot 20) for £800; L. S. Lowry, R. A.
Exhibition history Edinburgh, 1877. B.F.A.C., 1883 (no. 92a); Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887 (no. 1663)
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Artist's monogram and date bottom left:

DGR 1867
Title, technique and signature reverse:
The Return of Tibullus to Delia. Watercolour. D.G. Rossetti.
in DGR's handwriting
Source/Photographer Rossetti Archive
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