Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.|Christina Georgina Rossetti|Charles Joseph Faulkner

1862 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

Christina Rossetti’s first book of verse, The Goblin Market, helped establish her as England’s leading female poet. The text concerns sisters tempted by goblins to consume delicious fruit symbolizing illicit desire. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s illustration captures the moment Laura succumbs and buys the wares offered by a group of animal-headed monsters as Lizzie carries water home in the background. Faulkner, whom the artist favored as an engraver, cut the block, and the bold results pleased Christina.

Artist

Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.|Christina Georgina Rossetti|Charles Joseph Faulkner

Date

1862

Medium

Wood engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Walter L. Hildberg, 1937