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Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations for Moxon's Tennyson
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Edward Moxon
From Wikipedia
Edward Moxon (1801-1851) was a British poet and publisher.
He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. In 1826 he published a
volume of verse, entitled The Prospect, and other Poems, which
was received favourably. In 1830 Moxon was started by Samuel
Rogers as a London publisher in New Bond Street. The first
volume he produced was Charles Lamb's Album Verses. Moving to
Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition
of Rogers's Italy, £10,000 being spent upon the illustrations.
Wordsworth entrusted him with the publication of his works from
1835 onwards, and in 1839 he issued the first complete edition
of Shelley's poems.
Some passages in Shelley's Queen Mab resulted in a charge of
blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841. The case was tried
before Lord Denman. Serjeant Talfourd defended Moxon, but the
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the offensive passages
were expunged. Moxon continued to publish. In 1840 be published
Robert Browning's Sordello; and in succeeding years works by
Richard Monckton Milnes, Tom Hood, Barry Cornwall, Lord Lytton,
Browning and Alfred Tennyson appeared. On Moxon's death, his
business was continued by JB Payne and Arthur Moxon, who in 1865
published Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon; in 1871 it was taken
over by Ward, Lock & Tyler.
In 1857, Edward Moxon published illustrated of Alfred Lord
Tennyson's poems .
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William Holman Hunt
born April 2, 1827, London, Eng.
died Sept. 7, 1910, London
British artist and prominent member of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood. His style is characterized by clear, hard colour,
brilliant lighting, and careful delineation of detail.
In 1843 Hunt entered the Royal Academy schools where he met his
lifelong friend, the painter John Everett Millais. Publicopinion was
at first hostile toward Hunt; but, in 1854 “The Light of the World”
(Keble College, Oxford), an allegory of Christ knocking at the door
of the human soul, was championed by John Ruskin and brought Hunt
his first public success. In 1854 Hunt began a two-year visit to
Syria and Palestine, where he completed in 1855 “The Scapegoat,” a
painting depicting an outcast animal on the shores of the Dead Sea.
Among the most important of his later paintings are “The Triumph of
the Innocents” (two versions: 1884, Tate Gallery, London; 1885,
Liverpool), “May Morning on Magdalen Tower” (1889; Lady Lever Art
Gallery), and “The Miracle of the Sacred Fire” (1898), finished just
before his sight began to fail.
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William Holman Hunt
Recollections of the Arabian Nights
Recollections of the Arabian Nights
The Ballad of Oriana
The Ballad of Oriana
The Lady of Shalott
The Beggar Maid
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Godiva
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(b London, 12 May 1828; d Birchington on Sea, Kent, 9
April 1882). Painter, designer and poet.
Despite his Italian parentage, Rossetti never visited Italy. An early
disposition for drawing and literature led him to illustrate his sister
Maria’s copy of the Iliad in 1840. Three years later his first
poem, ‘Sir Hugh the Heron’, was privately printed by his maternal
grandfather, Gaetano Polidori.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The Lady of Shalott
Mariana in the South
The Palace of Art
The Palace of Art
Sir Galahad
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