DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

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.

MLA citation:

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Self-Portrait circa 1870. Watercolour and Ink. 3 7/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. (98 mm x 79 mm). © National Portrait Gallery, London. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/rossetti_dg_portrait