The Prince’s Progress
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1865
Crayon
167 x 68 mm
This is Rossetti’s final solution to the question of the Prince’s emotionalized pose, showing him with his right hand over his face. The final illustration is a straight transfer from this image and represents the artist’s capacity to inscribe deep feeling in resonant gestures. It is a perfect representation of the lines, ‘You should have wept her yesterday.’
Image from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Picture Library. Reproduced under the terms of Creative Commons. Caption material and formatting by Simon Cooke.
