Præraphaelite diaries and letters

Dante Alighieri · en
”           1851                                         292

          ”           1852-3                                       305

  INDEX                                                            310


                        LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


  1. Christina Georgina Rossetti, Profile by
       Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pencil (20 May
       1865). A very exact likeness of her
       at the age of thirty-four                        _Frontispiece_

  2. The Gravestone of Elizabeth Brown,
       Madox Brown’s first wife, Highgate
       Cemetery, designed by him. Print
       taken from a Drawing which he
       made in Colour-wash. A Grandson
       of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Michael
       Ford Madox Rossetti, who died in
       infancy in 1883, is now buried in the
       same Grave                                      _To face p._ 65

  3. Christ Washing Peter’s Feet, by Madox
       Brown, Pencil-sketch for the Oil-picture
       now in the National British
       Gallery. The Picture seems to have
       been begun towards the winter of
       1851, and was exhibited in 1852:
       this Pencil-drawing is probably the
       first sketch made to try the composition               ”    110

  4. Alfred Tennyson reading _Maud_ aloud.
       Pen-and-ink Sketch by Dante Gabriel
       Rossetti, 27 September 1855. Details
       as to this matter are given in my
       Memoir of Dante Rossetti. Mr. and
       Mrs. Browning, being then for a while
       at No. 13 Dorset Street, London,
       invited a few friends to hear Tennyson
       read _Maud_, as he had undertaken.
       Miss Browning, my Brother, and
       myself, were present, and perhaps one
       other. My Brother, unobserved by
       Tennyson, made a pen-and-ink sketch
       of him, and gave it to Browning. He
       also made a duplicate of the sketch,
       which belongs (or used to belong) to
       Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse. The present
       version is a triplicate, which he sent to
       Miss Elizabeth E. Siddal, then in
       Paris: she had started (I think only a
       few days before 27 September) for
       Paris and Nice, for the sake of
       her health. This triplicate had remained
       in the possession of the Siddal
       family until September 1899, when
       her Brother was so good as to present
       it to me                                               ”    233

                                                              W. M. R.




                            INTRODUCTION.


Through the agency of various persons, myself not the least active, a
considerable bulk of materials about the Præraphaelite Brotherhood,
or P.R.B., has by this time been published. Some of these materials
are in the nature of narratives or essays; others, of documents of
old date--letters, diaries, and so on. I now offer to the public a
further instalment of materials of the second class.