The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
Christina Georgina Rossetti|Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Macmillan & Co.|R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor|William James Linton|Burn
1866 · Illustrations: wood engraving · Drawings and Prints
Following the publication of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market in 1862, Dante Gabriel Rossetti helped launch his sister’s second volume of poetry. The Prince’s Progress tells of a princess awaiting the return of her tarrying prince. These illustrations allude to the beginning and the end of the tale. The title-page image shows a confined figure gazing out a window into an empty walled garden. The frontispiece shows the prince arriving, after a series of temptations and self-indulgences, only to find that the princess has died. After 1851 Rossetti stopped exhibiting at the Royal Academy, so his work was known to the public mostly through illustrations.
- Artist
- Christina Georgina Rossetti|Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Macmillan & Co.|R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor|William James Linton|Burn
- Date
- 1866
- Medium
- Illustrations: wood engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1921
