The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

FAIN: RQ-50043-03

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Jerome J. McGann (Project Director: September 2002 to September 2006)

The final two phases of The Rossetti Archive project, an online database of digital images and XML-marked transcriptions of materials related to the study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (36 months)

Begun in 1993 as a project of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia, The Rossetti Archive is a free online scholarly resource for studying the entirety of the complex body of work created by D.G. Rossetti - the poet, painter, translator, and craft designer who was a key figure in the late Victorian aesthetic revival. It implements an original digital design for editing a broad range of textual and graphical humanities materials - proofs, manuscripts, drawings, paintings, designs, etc. These materials exist in the Archive both as high-quality digital images and as XML-marked files for full search and analysis. Composed now of some 9,000 digital files, no other current online scholarly resource in arts and letters has the range or depth of the Archive. With its first two phases of development now (2002) finished, the proposal applies for funding to complete the two final phases of the project.

Associated Products

The Complete Writings and Picures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive (Web Resource)
Title: The Complete Writings and Picures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive
Author: Jerome McGann
Abstract: 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, and original editions, as well as the drawings, paintings, and designs of various kinds, including his collaborative photographic and craft works. These primary materials are transacted with a substantial body of editorial commentary, notes, and glosses.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/

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