Tuesday, December 18, 2012

'Songs before Sunrise' by AC Swinburne




Published by FS Ellis, 1871
The roundels incorporate the rising sun, the moon and the stars, and were adapted from the roundels on the frame for 'Beata Beatrix'. The binding is a blue-green cloth, but twenty-five large paper copies were printed in white buckram.

Rossetti - full list of items - exhibition 2003/4



http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/fulllist/

useful guide though not complete



Monday, December 17, 2012

Elizabeth Prettejohn



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Prettejohn

Alison Smith




http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/were-pre-raphaelites-britains-first-modern-artists

Rupert Maas




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Maas

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405805/Jail-forger-conned-Antiques-Roadshow-host.html

Circe offering the cup to Ulysses


Little Speedwell’s Darling Blue


Sunday, December 16, 2012

George Frederic Watts




George Frederic Watts
by and published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, after Frank Dudman, for Joseph Parkin Mayall
photogravure, circa 1883; published 1884

George Frederic Watts by Julia Margaret Cameron


1865 - 9

George Frederic Watts by Julia Margaret Cameron 1864