Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Blog Update



Moving tomorrow. Virgin Media tell me I'll be reconnected by the 26th (sigh) so see you then.Going for a break back on the 6th April.

Friday, March 14, 2014

A Christina Rossetti Letter

http://cultureandanarchy.wordpress.com/tag/christina-rossetti/


Wombat Sketch by William Michael Rossetti



Ode to a Wombat 
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(written while waiting for his mail-order wombat)

O how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat.

Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury


Edward Burne-Jones (1884) - “Cophetua Beggar Maid.”


Monday, March 10, 2014

Alone and palely loitering: La Belle Dame sans Merci



http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/alone-and-palely-loitering-la-belle-dame-sans-merci/

Kirsty Stonell Walker




http://fannycornforth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/spend-some-time-with-alexa-and-me.html

I will be giving a talk at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum on Alexa Wilding, mysterious muse and gorgeous enigma, on May 10th and tickets are on sale now!  

Evelyn de Morgan, The Angel of Death, 1880




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjRpr0xW0U

King RenĂ©’s Honeymoon Cabinet




King RenĂ©’s Honeymoon Cabinet (1860 - 62). Panel showing Rossetti’s design for Music (lovers kissing over a harpsichord). Other panels were designed by William Morris and Ford Madox Brown. The cabinet was designed by John Pollard Seddon and made by Thomas Seddon.
Victoria and Albert Museum.

Florence Harrison, A Peal of Bells


Day Dreams - John William Waterhouse