The Palace of Art

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Engraved by the Dalziels

1857

Wood engraving

3.7 x 4.2 inches

The Moxon Tennyson

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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Rossetti illustrates the following quatrain:

. . . in a clear-wall'd city on the sea,
      Near gilded organ-pipes, her hair
with white roses, slept Saint Cecily;
      An angel look'd at her. — "The Palace of Art"

Related Materials

• Rossetti's Interpretations: The Illustrations for Tennyson's "The Palace of Art"

Bibliography

Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. London: E. Moxon, 1857.

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