Drawings of Rossetti

This volume gathers a selection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s drawings, ranging from early mythic sketches to later, intimate portraits. Included are familiar images such as ‘Mary at the Door of Simon’, ‘La Donna della Finestra’, and studies for larger works like ‘The Prince’s Progress’ and ‘Desdemona’s Death Song’. Each plate is captioned and the book opens with a frontispiece and a full list of illustrations.

A concise essay by T. Martin Wood follows, examining Rossetti’s deeply personal style. Wood notes how the artist’s early dramatic subjects evolved into a self‑revealing approach, where the emotions of his models reflected his own joys and sorrows. The commentary also discusses the tension between Rossetti’s vivid imagination and the technical limits of drawing, highlighting the romantic emotionalism that distinguished his work in Victorian art. Listeners will gain a clearer sense of how these studies function both as preparations for grand paintings and as independent expressions of his inner world.