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Dante Gabriel Rossetti NPG licenced

The black-and-white self-portrait shows the artist in middle age, in a head-and shoulders close-up. He is positioned in three-quarters view, eyes facing the viewer. He is wearing a jacket, collar, and tie. He has a beard and moustache, a receding hairline, and wavy hair brushed back behind his ears. The background is created by dark cross-hatched lines, with a lightened box, like a window, positioned just behind the figure’s head. The artist’s monogram, DGR, is in the upper left corner and the date, 1870, is written in the upper right.