Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (15 × 9.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Walter L. Hildberg, 1937
Accession Number
37.58.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting world of Victorian poetry with *Buy from Us with a Curl*, a captivating wood engraving created in 1862 as theispiece for Christina Rossetti's *G Market and Other Poems*. Designed by Pre-Raphaelite master Dante Gabriel Rossetti—Christina's brother—and produced by the innovative firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (with contributions from Charles Joseph Faulkner), petite print (5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.) vividly captures a pivotal moment from the titular poem. Goblin merchants tempt a young woman with luscious fruits, demanding a "golden curl" in exchange, evoking themes of te...
About the Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.|Christina Georgina Rossetti|Charles Joseph Faulkner · 1828–1882
British artist. Comment on works: Allegory