This drawing shows two separate meetings of Dante and Beatrice, separated by a child personifying love in the center of the composition. The inspiration for this drawing comes from Dante Aligheri's Vita Nuova.

The T-shaped psalter in this painting was probably inspired by one of two medieval manuscripts owned by John Ruskin.

Depicts Ophelia returning to Hamlet, the letters and presents that he has given her. The carving to Hamlet's left depicts the tree of life.

Passing through in a processional, Mary Magdalen stops as she see's Christ. Rossetti also wrote a sonnet for this picture.

'Rend, rend thine hair, Cassandra: he will go.
Yea, rend thy garments, wring thine hands, and cry
From Troy still towered to the unreddedened sky.
See, all but she that bore thee mock the woe:--
He most whom that fair woman arms, with show
Of wrath on her bent brows; for in this place
This hour thou bad'st all men in Helen's face
The ravished ravishing prize of Death to know.

What eyes what ears hath sweet Andromache,
Save for her Hector's form and step; as tear
On tear make salt the warm lasy kiss he gave?
He goes. Cassandra's words beats heavily
Like crows above his crest, and as his ear
Ring hollow in the shield that shall not save.

-D.G.Rossetti

This may have been a cartoon for a stained glass panel based on the composition that was designed for an oak cabinet made by John P. Seddon and decorated by William Morris & Co.

Theme taken from a french poem from the Roman de la Rose, written in the thirteenth century.

This painting is supposedly a portrait of one of the daughters of William Graham. Rossetti had access to the painting long after his style had changed, and he painted more stylized features over what is seen in the current painting. The owner of the painting had all of the new paint removed, except for the new title Il Ramoscello, which means "the twig". [Image of the painting in its frame]

This painting depicts the same scene as the earlier drawing.

A portrait of the artist's sister, the poet Christina Rossetti.

A subject taken from Dante's Purgatory, about a woman who dies while she is imprisoned by her husband. This subject was closely related to how Rossetti thought of Jane Morris.