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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…