"Come buy from us with a golden curl”
by Hilda Hechle, an illustration for Christina
Rossetti’s 'Goblin Market'.

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This we are serenaded you with a sacred song in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘A Christmas Carol’, 1867, and it’s preliminary sketches. The second is a more finished chalk drawing and the third an earlier pencil drawing focussed on the positioning of the female figure.

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One of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations for Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (1933)

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Un soggetto del folklore indiano narrata da un poeta persiano Mogul, dipinto da un pittore inglese, nato in India e che fece poi parte del Rossetti’s Hogarth Club (preraffaelliti).

Valentine Cameron Prinsep 1838-1904
The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh
or The Legend of the Parrot

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This weekends posts will be focused around hair, in solidarity with the women of Iran, and the incredibly brutal threats they face. Rest in peace Mahsa Amini.

For this is Rossetti’s preparatory sketch for a painting, ‘Lady Lilith’.

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1st week of Fantasy 1 (one of 2 core courses in our Fantasy MLitt ) - done! It was lovely to meet the new cohort and to discuss balladry, fairy lore and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” with them! (, you were mentioned in all my sessions this week!)

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Here are the side by side. Rossetti’s oil painting is at the Tate Britain and Chapu’s sculpture is at the Chateau of Chantilly in France.
My pieces are coloring pencil in A3 paper

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Tune of the Seven Towers” (1857)

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Clusters of queens: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “King Arthur and the Weeping Queens” and John Tenniel’s illustration for “Through the Looking-Glass.”

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What links Galadriel with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Helen of Troy (1863) and Lady Lilith (1866–1868)? Find out in my 2020 keynote on Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (from about 19 minutes in): https://t.co/F4NkVNSq9A

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Happy 2022! New year can be a time of music, mirth and dancing, so to begin a new Saturday theme, the is Rossetti’s ‘The Bower Meadow’ .
The women’s togetherness and dreamy hopefulness are my 2022 wishes. Which artwork will inspire your new year?

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Illustration of the Day: The Poets’ Corner by Max Beerbohm (1943)
4.) Oscar Wilde
- Rossetti’s sonnet on Chatterton, read by Wilde in his American lectures:
https://t.co/yvDZHYQOVP

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Rossetti’s Portraits | The Holburne Museum
September 24, 2021 - January 9, 2022

"Features some of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most iconic artworks, which reveal the artist at the height of his creative powers..."

https://t.co/X2jLJ0LHB1

The Blue Silk Dress (Jane Morris), 1868

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After Rosetti’s Fanny Eaton, No. 2. Charcoal on paper. 3/21.

In March I did 4 x A3 drawings with different materials based on Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite drawings of the Jamaican born model in London, Fanny Eaton. This is no. 2

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After Rosetti’s Fanny Eaton, No. 1. Pencil on paper. 3/21.

In March I did 4 x A3 drawings with different materials based on Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite drawings of the Jamaican born model in London, Fanny Eaton. This is no. 1.

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In ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti experiments with language, form and imagery to create a world of temptation and mystery.Dr Dinah Roe considers Rossetti’s influences and the ways in which the poem has been illustrated and interpreted https://t.co/HeSTxcsFTm

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St George has just slain the dragon & won the hand of Princess Sabra. Jane Burden, who went on to marry William Morris, was Rossetti’s model. His intense attraction to Jane, while he was involved with Lizzie Sidall, is a powerful subtext here.

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Here’s my take on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Day Dream painting. I’ll probably rework this at some point.

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✨Based on Rossetti’s Lady Lilith✨ s/o to everyone who guessed correctly😛

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Rereading “Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book” (1872) in honour of Christina Rossetti’s birthday, and enjoying its strange riddles, spells, and prophecies.

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