goblin market illustrations dante gabriel rossetti

Indeed, Dante drew the frontispiece for the volume, and chose to illustrate one of Christina's most famous poem: 'Goblin market.' Her poems inspired many of the group's artists for they touched upon similar themes of 'devotional invocations, heartfelt romance and dramatic fantasy' and offered a 'verbal analogue for their pictorial images' (Jan Marsh, p.39). From the head downwards, the decoration is: the words: '/Goblin/ Market/ & other/ Poems./' '/Christina/ Rossetti./ ' are blocked in gold three small circles in gold underneath the title.Ĭurator's comments Christina Rossetti was very close to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of which her brother (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) was a founding member. The fillets at the head and at the base join the horizontal fillets on the upper cover. Two more groups of the three circles are blocked diagonally opposite those on the corners of the square nearest the spine. Groups of three small circles are blocked in gold at four of the intersection points. Rectangles are formed by the intersecting single fillets. Two fillets are blocked horizontally in gold, intersecting the vertical fillets, and continuing all the way to the fore edge. A fourth vertical fillet is blocked in gold near the fore edge. A third vertical fillet is blocked further away from the spine. Two fillets are blocked close together, head to tail, by the spine. Both covers blocked identically, in blind on the lower, and in gold on the upper. The upper pastedown has a booksellers' label embossed: '/ W.H. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.īinding: Brown endpapers and pastedowns. cloth./'Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. Page five of the publisher's titles list this work as: '/ With Two Illustrations from Designs by D.G.

The frontispiece plate has the caption:' / Buy from us a golden curl/ ' it is signed also with 'MMF&Co' on the bottom left-hand corner and “DGR” as a monogram in the bottom right hand corner. The illustration in the middle of two women reclining and embracing is captioned: “/ Golden head by golden head/”. Signed with the monogram: 'GDR' as a monogram in the left hand corner, and 'WJL' on the lower right hand corner. The title is printed in the upper panel, and the imprint in the lower. The half-title page is divided into three panels by double vertical and horizontal fillets. With sixteen pages of publisher's titles bound at the end. London: Bradbury and Evans, printers Whitefriars.

Goblin market illustrations dante gabriel rossetti