Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s first published illustration was The Maids of Elfen-Mere, drawn to illustrate a ballad by William Allingham titled “The Maids of Elphin-Mere”. I am unaware why Rossetti chose a different spelling of the title. I’ve searched through several books and haven’t found anything more than passing mentions. The Rossetti Archive includes it in [...]
Although Rossetti painted Jane Morris repeatedly, it is a bit unusual to see her painted as Beatrice. Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s unrequited love, is a character Rossetti strongly associated with Elizabeth Siddal. There is another painting of Jane Morris as Beatrice at The Rossetti Archive titled The Salutation of Beatrice, also known as The Lady in [...]
Painted in 1901, The Keepsake by Kate Bunce is based on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem The Staff and Scrip. The Staff and Scrip is a heroic and romantic tale of a pilgrim who finds himself in a land ruled by Queen Blanchelys. The pilgrim is shocked by the state of this land and is told [...]
The more I study the Pre-Raphaelites, the more I discover that I often prefer the artist’s studies rather than the paintings themselves. Although I love Fair Rosamund, I find the study has a sad and intimate feel that isn’t quite captured the same way in Rossetti’s finished product. Here is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s study for [...]
The Wine of Circe, painted by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a sonnet inspired by this painting, which you can read a great deal of background on at The Rossetti Archive: DGR wrote the sonnet for the express purpose of having “some record of [Burne-Jones'] work in my book [i.e., in the [...]
The weather has been unusually cold and yesterday’s snow made my little neighborhood look like a different and more enchanting place. I loved yesterday. It was a day filled with exhilarating romping in the snow with my children until night fell and we literally tumbled indoors feeling exhausted and content. Then the night became one [...]
On February 11, 1862, Elizabeth Siddal died of an overdose of Laudanum. This was a tragic end to a very sad period of her life. She and her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had suffered the birth of a stillborn daughter and Lizzie was in the throes of grief and depression. She was also in [...]
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