Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson|Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Edward Moxon & Company|Thomas Woolner|Alfred Tennyson|Henry Robinson|Bradbury & Evans|Queen Victoria|Thomas Creswick|Thomas Williams|Sir John Everett Millais|Dalziel Brothers|William Holman Hunt|John Thompson|William James Linton|William Mulready|John Callcott Horsley|Clarkson Stanfield|Daniel Maclise|W. T. Green
1857 · Illustrations: mezzotint, wood engraving · Drawings and Prints
In 1857 Edward Moxon brought out a new edition of Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and fellow Pre-Raphaelites William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. The first two artists created unconventional medievalist images to accompany poems they revered. Rossetti's illustration, created for the poem Sir Galahad, portrays King Arthur’s purest knight resting at a woodland shrine during his quest for the Holy Grail. In the poem, invisible mystical forces tend the shrine, but Rossetti represented female angels clustered beneath the altar, ringing a bell. George Somes Layard wrote in the nineteenth century that "Millais realised, Holman Hunt idealised, and Rossetti transcendentalized the subjects which they respectively illustrated."
- Artist
- Alfred Tennyson|Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Edward Moxon & Company|Thomas Woolner|Alfred Tennyson|Henry Robinson|Bradbury & Evans|Queen Victoria|Thomas Creswick|Thomas Williams|Sir John Everett Millais|Dalziel Brothers|William Holman Hunt|John Thompson|William James Linton|William Mulready|John Callcott Horsley|Clarkson Stanfield|Daniel Maclise|W. T. Green
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Illustrations: mezzotint, wood engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1920
