. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . No befnisl^ illustra- tioi P I iC/it LAt:*w LlLl V V J , a w^iit for \v Wight .s ., liustrating 7/^ i^e was so innocent of the tricks of the Liii ivers trade at first as not to reverse the drawii the block, but he made a charming de:; orking on it at intervals from the first scrat • ^ . August of Liie b, ? -^f:^^ I. the - - ??• The Seer/ of David. -^ Centre of Triptvch. Calhrrlral. the d to the ank fury at modelling , he -ILiUUb line .r ,, may be in a ^^- fici(Mit care, for I tov ration •he eng line wher esult and ible n.; not p
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . No befnisl^ illustra- tioi P I iC/it LAt:*w LlLl V V J , a w^iit for \v Wight .s ., liustrating 7/^ i^e was so innocent of the tricks of the Liii ivers trade at first as not to reverse the drawii the block, but he made a charming de:; orking on it at intervals from the first scrat • ^ . August of Liie b, ? -^f:^^ I. the - - ??• The Seer/ of David. -^ Centre of Triptvch. Calhrrlral. the d to the ank fury at modelling , he -ILiUUb line .r ,, may be in a ^^- fici(Mit care, for I tov ration •he eng line wher esult and ible n.; not pos- siiMv appear. Mr. Al ifferently. Zbc nDi^^le JPears. 97 the latter consented, reflecting that by going over itcarefully and cutting out lines the human charactermight be partially substituted for the oyster andgoldfish cast of features, and other desirable changeseffected. Poor Dalziel seems not to have been par-ticularly penitent, and asked to knov/ hov/ one wasto engrave a drawing that was partly in ink, partlyin pencil, and partly in red chalk ! In January, 185s, just as the Allingham block wasready for the engraver, Rossetti received a propos-ition from Moxon to do some of the designs forthe illustrated edition of Tennysons poems whicheventually came out in 1857. He picked out for hispurpose poems on which one could allegorise onones own hook, The Palace of Art, Mariana in theSouth, The Lady of Shalott, and Sir Galahad, andon these themes he certainly allegorised to hishearts desire. The woodcuts were not, however,at all to his hearts desire. As with The Maids ofElfen-Mere, he took infinite pains, only to find hi
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