Rossetti Archive

About Rossetti Archive

The Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia archive of the writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator. It was completed in 2008 to a plan laid out in 1993 and provides students and scholars with access to his pictorial and textual works and a large contextual collection. Most of the contextual materials date from about 1848 to 1920, with some reaching back to the 14th-century sources of his Italian translations. All documents are encoded for structured search and analysis.

The primary materials are accompanied by editorial commentary, notes, and glosses. The archive states that it aims to include high-quality digital images of every surviving documentary state of Rossetti's works, including manuscripts, proofs, original editions, drawings, paintings, and designs. The source describes this as an aim, so the entry does not confirm that every state is currently included. The collection is freely distributed under a Creative Commons license.

Key features

• Search across Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pictorial and textual works
• Contextual corpus of materials, mostly from about 1848 to 1920
• Documents encoded for structured search and analysis
• Editorial commentary, notes, and glosses accompanying primary materials
• Aimed digital images of manuscripts, proofs, and original editions
• Aimed coverage of drawings, paintings, and collaborative photographic and craft works

Rossetti Archive at a glance