St. Cecily / Cecilia (Illustration for The Palace of Art in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)

After Dante Gabriel Rossetti British
 Engraver Dalziel Brothers British

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Rossetti’s 1857 illustrations of Tennyson—here reissued in 1903—incorporate startling effects derived from medieval and early Renaissance art. Space collapses, forms are cut off, and narrative details are inserted without concern for conventional perspective. Rossetti criticized the engravers and insisted on many changes, delaying the publication.

St. Cecily / Cecilia (Illustration for The Palace of Art in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903), After Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea), Wood engraving

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