Sir Galahad (from Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)
After Dante Gabriel Rossetti British
Engraver William James Linton British
Not on view
Rossetti’s 1857 illustrations of Tennyson—reissued here in 1903—incorporate startling effects derived from medieval and early Renaissance art. Space collapses, forms are cut off, and narrative details are inserted without concern for conventional perspective. Sir Galahad is a night scene dramatized by flaming candles first in a woodland shrine. Rossetti criticized the engravers and insisted on many changes, delaying the publication.
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