The Blessed Damozel - Study for one of the Pairs of Lovers, 1876. Artist: Dante Gabriel A study for one of the couples in the background of the Blessed Damozel. This particular group appears in the left background of the 1875-78 version of the painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, comissioned by William Graham. There is also a version of the painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1875-79). The work is based on a poem, 'The Blessed Damozel', by Rossetti. Rossetti is here seen to be making pencil revisions to the back of the male figure.

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Keywords: art, literature, movement, paper, pencil, poetry, pre-raphaelite, sketch, study, works