Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Errors, when reasonably attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details. Corrections made to the text are summarized there. Footnotes have been resequenced to be unique across the book, and have been gathered at the end of each chapter. The illustrations have been moved to avoid falling within a paragraph. Each plate was prefixed by a caption and attribution on a previous page, and both caption and illustration were blank on their verso, and all four pages were not included in the pagination. The blank pages are not included here, obviously. DANTE ROSSETTI AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT [Illustration] “THE DAY-DREAM.” From the chalk. _By permission of Mr. Theodore Watts._ DANTE ROSSETTI AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT BY ESTHER WOOD LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND COMPANY, LIMITED, SAINT DUNSTAN’S HOUSE, FETTER LANE FLEET STREET, E.C. MDCCCXCIIIJ CHISWICK PRESS:—C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, E.C. PREFACE. The following pages do not afford any material additions to what is already known of Dante Rossetti, or of the history and purpose of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The authoritative biography of Rossetti has yet to be written; and while availing myself fully of such new details as may cast fresh side-lights upon the dominant personalities of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, my aim has rather been to present the main features of that movement in their relation to the larger intellectual tendencies of the age, and to the moral principles which have determined the growth of taste and feeling in the nineteenth century. To this end I have avoided as far as possible the proper domain of the art critic, and endeavoured to deal with the Pre-Raphaelite movement more as an ethical than an æsthetic revolution.