Rossetti'sCourtship. Chatham Place, 1850-1860

Max Beerbohm

1922

Rossetti and His Circle, Plate 2

6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches

 

This plate depicting Dante Gabriel Rossetti gazing earnestly (and possibly sourly) at Lizzie Siddall, who faces in another direction, captures the importance in Rossetti's thought of the beloved as an object of contemplation and visual pleasure. A painting of Lizzie as Rossettian Fair Lady stands on the easel at the upper left, and poems written to her and other beloved, real and imagined, lie in a portfolio and scattered about the floor. The lack of any interaction between the couple provides the chief comment on their courtship

 

George Augustus Sala with Rossetti

Max Beerbohm 1922

Rossetti and His Circle, Plate 16

6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches

Rossetti in his worldlier days (circa 1866-1868) Leaving the Arundel Club with George Augustus Sala.

MR. SALA: "YOU and I, Rossetti, we like and we understand each other. Bohemians, both of us, to the core, we take the world as we find it. I give Mr. Levy what he wants, and you give Mr. Rae and Mr. Leyland what they want, and glad we are to pocket the cash and foregather at the Arundel."

 

An Introduction. Miss Cornforth: "Oh, very pleased to meet Mr, Ruskin, I'm sure."

Max Beerbohm

1922

Rossetti and His Circle, 

6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches

 

Spring Cottage, Hamstead, 1860. Coventry Patmore preaches very vehemently to the Rossettis that a tea-pot is not worshipful for its form and colour but as a sublime symbol of domesticity..

D. G. Rossetti, precociously manifesting, among the exiled patriots who frequented his father's house in Charlotte Street, that queer indifference to politics which marked him in his prime and his decline.

Frontispiece from Max Beerbohm, Rossetti and His Circle,

 

Rossetti, having just had a fresh consignment of ‘stunning’ fabrics ... tries hard to prevail on his younger sister to accept ... one

British Stock and Alien Inspiration, 1849

The Sole Remark Likely to Have Been Made by Benjamin Jowett about the Mural Paintings at the Oxford Union

The Name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is Heard for the First Time in the Western States of America

 

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