The Maids of Elfen-Mere
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Engraver: The Dalziels
1855; original block shown here, printed 1939
Wood engraving
127 x 77 mm
Harold Hartley, Eighty-Eight Not Out, facing 238
Unlike the image appearing in Allingham’s The Music Master (London: Routledge, 1855), which was printed from an electrotype, this print is taken from the original woodblock. See below for commentary, and mouse over the text for links.
Scanned image, caption material and formatting by Simon Cooke, and commentary by Paul Goldman.