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PROSE DESCRIPTION The black-and white image centres on a woman standing in a crowded street between two brick buildings. The woman, Mary Magdalene, faces the…

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The small black-and-white image is centred on the page, framed by a double rule. The scene depicts a woman, the goddess Psyche, standing in a…

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Ricketts’ reproduced pen drawing portrays the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx. In the image, Oedipus is leaning in toward the Sphinx to…

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The front cover is bound in a claret-coloured cloth and features letters and images in gold gilt impressing. The title, “The Pageant,” appears in all…

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This half-tone reproduction of John Millais’s 1854 oil painting is presented in reverse to the original, and is in landscape orientation. It depicts a knight,…

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This blue half-tone image in portrait orientation reproduces a watercolour that Millais prepared to illustrate a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for an illustrated edition…

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Displayed in portrait orientation, the reproduced image is an imaginative play on the myth of Narcissus. A group of 10 men are bathing nude in…

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Also known as “The Death of Medusa II,” this painting, reproduced in halftone, is from a series of ten commissioned in 1875 by Sir Arthur…

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The halftone reproduction of Edward Burne Jones’ 1881 painting of a mythical sea nymph leaping across a tumultuous ocean surface is framed and centred on…

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This late- fifteenth-century tempera painting by Sandro Botticelli, described as “a picture recently found” on the half-title page, is reproduced by halftone process engraving and…