Mythic Uther's Deeply Wounded Son (King Arthur and the Weeping Queens) (Illustration for "The Palace of Art" in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)

Publisher New Amsterdam Book Company American

1903

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This print was created from a photograph taken of the drawing Rossetti made on the woodblock as part of the process to create a woodengraved illustration for Tennyson's Poems, published in London by Edward Moxon in 1857 (the drawing was necessarily destroyed when the block was cut).

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Title: Mythic Uther's Deeply Wounded Son (King Arthur and the Weeping Queens) (Illustration for "The Palace of Art" in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)
Artist: After Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea)
Publisher: New Amsterdam Book Company (New York)
Date: 1903
Medium: Photogravure
Dimensions: Image: 2 15/16 × 3 11/16 in. (7.5 × 9.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (20 × 16 cm)
Plate: 4 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (12 × 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1925
Object Number: 25.78.632
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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