Antique print - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his back garden 1943 Max Beerbohm A reproduction of a wonderful caricature by the celebrated wit and caricaturist, Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956). Hovering on the edge of the Oxford aesthetes and the Cafe Royale circles, his friends included Will Rothenstein, Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. Specialising in literary caricatures, he made his mark on the 1890s as much as Phil May or Aubrey Beardsley."Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his back garden" - depicting William Morris with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, John Ruskin, George Meredith, Algernon Swinburne, Hall Caine, William Holman Hunt, William Bell Scott, a kangaroo, bird and snake, and one of Rossetti's models, Elizabeth Siddal - by the inimitable Max Beerbohm - a lovely period illustration. |
