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The picture was based on Byron poem which tells the tale of Prince Azo who executed his wife, Parisina, after discovering her adulterous affair with his illegitimate son, Hugo.
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This image shows Parisina talking about Hugo in her sleep.
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Prince Azo first hears Parisina talk of Hugo in her sleep. In his rage he contemplates murdering her.
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An illustration to Browning's poem 'The Laboratory'. An alchemist accepts jewellery from a woman in payment for poison to destroy her rival.
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An illustration for Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'The Raven'
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This image was inspired by an elegy by the Roman poet Tibullus in which the writer asks his mistress to await his return.
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This sketch is inspired by a poet rather than poetry - at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Rossetti made an impromptu sketch of Alfred Tennyson reading one of his favourite poems, 'Maud'
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An image of reconciliation that illustrates Tennyson's poem Dora.
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This is one of a series of etchings to illustrate 'Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood'. Oddly it reminds me of some of the animation in Japanese anime films.
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This image illustrates the last verse of an anonymous poem 'At Night'.
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This image illustrates the poem 'Temujin' by Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878). Temujin was the fifteenth-century hero who became the Mongol emperor Gengis Khan.
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This is a wood-engraved illustration for 'Master Olaf', a German poem by L. B.
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The poem 'The Wife' deals with a loveless marriage.
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A design for the wood engraving illustrating George Wither's poem 'Life's Journey'.
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This is an illustratration to accompany the poem 'The Little Mourner' by Henry Alford. The design illustrated the moment when the little girl is asked what she is doing and replies that 'her love compels her to clear the snow off the graves of her dead parents and four sisters'
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This is an engraved proof after a now lost drawing used for the title page of Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market and other Poems'
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This is a design for a wood-engraving to illustrate Christina Rossetti's poem 'If'. The poem reflects on the theme of melancholy love and was later re-titled 'Hope against Hope'.
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This was an illustration for a poem by Alfred B Richards. Here the prophetess Cassandra berates Helen of Troy by pointing to the city which burns as a result of her infidelity. I love it for the two women's faces - although I think he has captured the faces of toddlers not women!
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This illustration was for 'Downstream' a poem by Rossetti published in 1871. The poem tells the tale of a woman seduced and left pregnant by a man on the first of May. By the first of June the next year she has drowned herself and her baby in desperation.
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This painting is based on a poem by Rossetti.