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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-1882
The queen's page / DGR [monogram].
[London : sn, 1888?]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1337
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[London : s.n., 1888?]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Notes:
Proof(?) of a photomechanical reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by D.G. Rossetti illustrating the poem from Heine, "The queen's page," drawn by Rossetti in 1854 and first reproduced in 1888 in William Allingham's Flower pieces and other poems.
Drawing signed with Rossetti's monogram and dated "June 9/54".
Summary:
Illustration shows the youthful queen walking with the elderly king and glancing back over her shoulder at the handsome young page holding the train of her dress.
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