Transcriber Notes:
The caption on Plate XXXIII was changed to FORD MADOX BROWN.
The caption on Plate XXXV was changed to STUDY FOR QUEEN GUINEVERE.
In LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, changed MR. WILLIAM MORRIS to MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS.
THE DRAWINGS OF
D. G. ROSSETTI
BY T. MARTIN WOOD
THE intensely subjective nature of Rossetti's art is what gives it fascination for its lovers; it belonged to himself. Even in his early period and with his dramatic subjects this was so, and partly by the depth of imaginative meaning he read into the faces of women. The last phase of his art was entirely one of self-revelation; his own moments of sorrow were mirrored in one woman's face, moments in which he created sadly, living over again in them some hours that had been happy.
This is her picture as she was: It seems a thing to wonder on, As though mine image in the glass Should tarry when myself am gone.
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for so Was the still movement of her hands And such the pure line's gracious flow.
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