The Music Master, 1855, Illustrations: wood engraving, 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( x cm), Books, Rossetti’s first published

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The Music Master, 1855, Illustrations: wood engraving, 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( x cm), Books, Rossetti’s first published illustration was made for this volume to accompany the poem The Maids of Elfin-mere. Characteristically, the image focuses on a vision of three maidens who appear nightly to spin and chant, entrancing a pastor’s son who, “listening to their gentle singing, felt his heart go from him clinging, round these maids of Elfen-Mere

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