The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti A
Hypermedia Archive T HE Rossetti Archive facilitates the
scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter,
designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John
Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original
artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in
Great Britain. In Whistler's famous comment, “He was a king”.
Completed in 2008 to the plan laid out in 1993, the Archive
provides students and scholars with access to all of DGR's
pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of
materials, most drawn from the period when DGR's work first
appeared and established its reputation (approximately
1848-1920), but some stretching back to the 14th-century sources
of his Italian translations. All documents are encoded for
structured search and analysis. The Rossetti Archive aims to
include high-quality digital images of every surviving
documentary state of DGR's works: all the manuscripts, proofs,