Showing posts with label Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Oliver Reed



Oliver Reed as the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti in TV film (1967) Dante's Inferno 

The grave of Dante Gabriel Rossetti



The grave of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Parish Church of All Saints, Birchington, Kent Here sleeps / Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti / honoured under the name of / Dante Gabriel Rossetti / among painters as a painter / and among poets as a poet / born in London / of parentage mainly Italian 12 May 1828 / died at Birchington 9 April 1882 The memorial Celtic Cross was designed by Ford Maddox Brown.

Fanny 1869



graphite on paper

Friday, March 14, 2014

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.

Monday, March 10, 2014

King René’s Honeymoon Cabinet




King René’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.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Rossetti, Joli Coeur, 1867



http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s196.rap.html