Up for sale from a local collection in Honolulu Hawaii, this 1914 United Kingdom Wood engraving on India proofing paper affixed at its corners to a mount, after an 1879 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. Signed "T. Cole Sc. - 1914". The condition is described above - for more details please check the photos.
Measurements:
Sheet 11.25 inches high x 9 inches wide
More about the artist:
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais.
Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of the painter Raphael (1483-1520) and to re-vitalize the medieval focus on religion and realism that held closely to nature. Rossetti was born to the exiled Italian scholar, Gabriel Rossetti, and was the brother of Christina Rossetti, a prominent poet. Dante Rosetti became a student from 1845 to 1847 at the Royal Academy Antique School, and there began the association with Hunt and Millais.
Rossetti's early Pre-Raphaelite paintings had religious and mystical symbolism, but criticism of his painting, led him to show his paintings in private circumstances and to do watercolors instead of oils. His primary theme became romantic love, and in many of his works, he depicted his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, whom he married in 1860. However, two years later she died. He spent his last years in seclusion, apparently depressed by public criticism of his poetry and paintings and by personal experiences including complications with women and drugs mixed with alcohol to combat insomnia .
Condition:
The print is on very thin translucent paper adhered to the corners to the backing, no foxing, super clean, the shown print appears rippled in the photos but is completely flat in reality
