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heaveninawildflower · 1 month

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Portrait, perhaps of Elizabeth Siddal (1850) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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#Dante Gabriel Rossetti #Elizabeth Siddal #portrait #pre raphaelite #Victorian art

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uwmspeccoll · 1 month

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

Today we’re leaning into the drama with a 1910 edition of Poems from notorious bohemian and (unofficial) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) member Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). This vellum covered, gilt stamped, 369-page tome was printed on Unbleached Arnold paper by the Villafield Press in Glasgow and published in limited run of 350 copies in London by Blackie & Son under the art direction of Talwin Morris. It features a praiseful yet cutting introduction from fellow poet, critic, and suffragist Alice Meynell (1847-1922) along with a wealth of illustrations (70 plates) by Florence Harrison (1877–1955) , an Australian illustrator of poetry and children’s books who worked extensively with Blackie & Son. Harrison’s style was inspired by the Romantic Era and the nature-worshipping, hedonistic values of the Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite movements of the time. Fittingly, she also illustrated the works of fellow PRB poets William Morris (1834-1896) and Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).

While many of the poems included are overtly devotional and express themes of purity, motifs of romantic love, limerence, melancholy, and death permeate the mood of the text as a whole. The Rossetti family, particularly Christina’s brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) (poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and co-founder of the PRB) and Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862) (artist, iconic art model, poet, and Dante’s longtime partner, muse, and eventual wife), are known for their exploits, excesses, creative legacy and influence on the culture of the era. Christina published her first poem at only 16, and Siddal posed for Millais's Ophelia at 19. The radical, passionate nature of the philosophies and lifestyle they embodied was as much a product of the intensity and privilege of their youth as of the Renaissance ideals and Victorian mores they rebelled against.

For a deeper dive on the Rossettis and their generation, check out this recent exhibition at the Tate Modern.

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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#pre raphaelite #Christina Rossetti #Villafield Press #Blackie and Son #Blackie & Son #Dante Gabriel Rossetti #Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood #Romanticism #poetry #fine press #Unbleached Arnold paper #Alice Meynell #Florence Harrison #Elizabeth Siddal #limerence #bohemian #Talwin Morris #fine press fridays #Ana

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metamorphesque · 11 months

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All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away. –

Elizabeth Siddal, "Love and Hate"

#elizabeth siddal #poetry #poems #quotes #classic literature #literature #love and hate

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lionofchaeronea · 1 month

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Lady Clare, Elizabeth Siddal, ca. 1854-57

#art #art history #Elizabeth Siddal #female artists #medievalism #Pre-Raphaelite #pre-raphaelisme #British art #English art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #watercolor #private collection

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anatomicalmartyr · 2 years

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti + red hair

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fawnvelveteen · 1 year

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Drawing of Elizabeth Siddal reading (1854)

#Elizabeth Siddal #Drawing #Drawing of Elizabeth Siddal reading #reading girl #1850s #1854 #art #portrait #pre-raphaelite #dante gabriel rossetti

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eminent-victoriana · 3 months

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Me too, Lizzie

(A woman and a spectre by Elizabeth Siddall)

#lizzie siddal #elizabeth siddal #elizabeth siddall #pre raphaelite #art #my post

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a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite · 1 year

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The hope I dreamed of was a dream,

Was but a dream; and now I wake

Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old,

For a dream's sake.

I hang my harp upon a tree,

A weeping willow in a lake;

I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt

For a dream's sake.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;

My silent heart, lie still and break:

Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed

For a dream's sake

- Mirage by Christina Rossetti

Elizabeth Siddal, 1855, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#pre-raphaelite #art #victorian art #pre raphaelite #preraphaelite #dante gabriel rossetti #elizabeth siddal #christina rossetti #victorian poetry #pre raphaelite poetry

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strawberryvulture · 9 months

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she was very beautiful. kind, but sad…

Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1851-1852)///Padme Amidala, Revenge of the Sith dir. George Lucas (2005)

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miriogumi · 3 months

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— ophelia

kozakura honoka as elizabeth siddal — beata beatrix 2022.

#takarazuka #kozakura honoka #hoshigumi #star troupe #beata beatrix #elizabeth siddal #tkz #takarazuka revue

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diioonysus · 1 year

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artists and their muses

elizabeth siddal (1829-1862) ophelia (1852) by john everett millais

#artists and their muses #elizabeth siddal #sir john everett millais #ophelia #history #women in history #beauty #photography #vintage photography #vintage art #art

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preraphaelist · 1 month

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A portrait of Jane Morris with the red hair of Elizabeth Siddal, found unfinished in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's studio at the time of this death.

#pre raphaelite #pre-raphaelite #preraphaelite #art #art history #dante gabriel rossetti #rossetti #jane morris #elizabeth siddal

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ozarknativethreads · 7 months

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Working on portrait embroidery and raw edge appliqué. From anonymous mid-century modern women to Mary Shelley, Jane Morris, and my favorite, Lizzie Siddal. And last but not least, Townes Van Zandt with chicken.