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The Pre-Raphaelites. Eng 386: Victorian Poetry Dr Alison Chapman. Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke (1774). Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (1485). Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849). The Annunciation (1850). Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents (1849-50).
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The Pre-Raphaelites Eng 386: Victorian Poetry Dr Alison Chapman
From Siddall to Siddal/Guggums/The Sid • He [Deverell] bounded up, marching or rather dancing to and fro about the room and, stopping emphatically, he whispered, "You fellows can't tell what a stupendously beautiful creature I have found. By Jove! she's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling . . . she has grey eyes and her hair is like dazzling copper and shimmers with lustre as she waves it down. And now, where do you think I lighted on this paragon of beauty? Why, in a milliner's back workroom when I went out with my mother shopping . . . I peered over the blind of a glass door at the back of the shop, and there was this unexpected jewel. (WHH’s account) • DGR, Return of Tibullus to Delia (c. 1853)
DGR’s support of her art • "Her power of designing even increases greatly, and her fecundity of invention and facility are quite wonderful, much greater than mine.” (DGR, 1854) • Siddal, Pippa Passes (1854)