Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Perlascura. Coloured chalk on pale green paper. Even before Jane Burden married William Morris in 1859, she had been one of Rossetti's models of the decoration of the Oxford Union. In the late 1860's she began a romantic liaison with Rossetti and he included her distinctive features in many of his works.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) Perlascura. Coloured chalk on pale green paper. Even before Jane Burden married William Morris in 1859, she had been one of Rossetti's models of the decoration of the Oxford Union. In the late 1860's she began a romantic liaison with Rossetti and he included her distinctive features in many of his works.

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Keywords: 1828-1882, archival, archive, british, dante, gabriel, historical, history, painting, perlascura, pre-rapahelite, rossetti, victorian