VIRGIN in Annunciation Sancta Lilias by Rossetti -1883 Lichtdruck Antique Print

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: A Lichtdruck (a.k.a. Phototype, Collotype etc) reproduction of the original crayon drawing by Rossetti. Printed on laid paper with a watermark. Year of printing: 1883 Publisher: Philip G. Hamerton, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, Fleet Street, London Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 9 x 13.5 inches (23 x 34 cm), include blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavy - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green 'border' around the print in the photo is the contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.Original Narrative: SANCTA LILIAS: Gabriele Rossetti, the father of the artist, was an Italian poet who lived in England as a political refugee, and became Professor of Italian at King's College. His son, naturally enough, was in due course entered as a student at King's College School, where he remained for seven years. He gave early evidence of his talent for art, and on leaving school he took up his studies in Gary's Studio, in Bloornsbury, going to the Academy " Antique " School for a year at the age of seventeen. Millais and Holman Hunt were fellow-pupils' and in 1848 they helped to found the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti. derived great benefit from this association, for his first picture was painted under the guidance of Holman Hunt and in his studio. In certain respects Rossetti was the most interesting member of the Brotherhood. He scrupulously followed the delineation of natural detail and effect, but he added the study of intense poetic expression on his own account. This was because he was a poet as well as a painter, a dreamer of dreams as well as an interpreter of visions in the light of tangible things. His favourite subjects were those derived from medieval history, the "Vita Nuova" and English ballads; only on one occasion did he engage upon the illustration of the modern story. In 1857 he illustrated Tennyson's Poems, and helped in the decoration of the Union Debating Hall at Oxford, and this period was productive of some of his finest work. He was facile in water-colour as well as in oil; and he did some noteworthy decorative work, of which his altarpiece " The Adoration of the Magi," for Llandaff Cathedral, may be mentioned. The large drawing original in crayons called Sancta Lilias is one of those compositions where the spiritual expression of the female face is given with special success; in this instance the face as well as the expression being very beautiful, and not of so mannered a type as many of his later chalks. Sancta Lilias is the study for the Virgin in an Annunciation which was never begun, but whose loveliness certainly transcends the Mary of the Girlhood picture, or hers of Ecce Ancilla Domini. In the right upper corner of the composition is a white scroll bearing the title, and on the white scarf, which with one hand she unfolds from the tall Annunciation lily she bears before her, are the words Aspice lilia; the haloed hair and face and simple drapery being finely drawn. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 29.25 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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