Signelil
Arthur Boyd Houghton
1866
Wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers
5 x 4 inches
Illustration for Ballad Stories of the Affections, p. 9.
This image typifies Houghton’s manipulation of Pre-Raphaelite medievalism, deploying the fanciful archaism that also features in the illustrations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederick Sandys.
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Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke