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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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John Everett Millais
born June 8, 1829, Southampton,Hampshire, Eng.
died Aug. 13, 1896, London
English painter and illustrator, and a founding member ofthe artistic movement
known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
In 1838 Millais went to London and at the age of 11 entered the Royal Academy
schools. Extremely precocious, he won all the academy prizes. In 1848 Millais
joined with two other artists, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood was founded in
opposition to contemporary academic painting, which the group believed was the
result of the example set by Raphael and which had dominated the schools and
academies since his time. At the next year's academy,the novelist Charles
Dickens led a violent attack on Millais's “Christ in the House of His Parents”
(1850; Tate Gallery, London), which many considered blasphemous because of its
lack of idealization and seemingirreverence in the use of the mundane.
Millais's period of greatest artistic achievement came in the 1850s. “The Return
of the Dove to the Ark” (1851; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) was admired by both the
English essayist and critic John Ruskin and the French author Théophile Gautier;
and “The Order of Release” (1853; Tate Gallery), which included a portrait of
his future wife Effie Gray (then unhappily married to Ruskin, whose portrait
Millais also painted), was praised by Eugène Delacroix in 1855 and earned for
its artist his associateship to the Royal Academy in 1853. In 1856 Millais
painted one of his greatest public successes, “The Blind Girl” (Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery)—a tour de force of Victorian sentiment and technical
facility.
In 1863 Millais became full academician, and by this time his style had
broadened and his content altered toward a more deliberately popular, less
didactic approach. He executed illustrations for George Dalziel's Parables
(1864) and E. Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems and contributed to Once a
Week, Good Words and other periodicals. Millais's later work is undoubtedly of
poorer overall quality—a deterioration of which he was fully aware. In 1870
appeared the first of his pure landscapes, “Chill October.” Many of these
landscapes are of Perthshire, where Millais shot and fished in the autumn. Many
portraits belong to this late period, including those of William Gladstone, of
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and of Cardinal Newman. Millais was created a baronet in
1885 and was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1896.
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John Everett Millais
Mariana
The Sisters
A Dream of Fair Women
A Dream of Fair Women
The Lord Burleigh
The Death of the Old Year
St Agnes' Eve
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The Miller's
Daughter
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The Miller's
Daughter
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The Sisters
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A Dream of Fair
Women
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A Dream of Fair
Women
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The Death of the Old
Year
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Dora
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Dora
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The Talking Oak
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The Talking Oak
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Locksley
Hall
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Locksley Hall
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St. Agnes'
Eve
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The
Day-Dream
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The
Day-Dream
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Edward Gray
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The Lord of Burleigh
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