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1991.1016.307.1
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Reproduction of a self-portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti created by (Emery) Walker and (Sydney) Cockerell. Found inserted in the book, Ballads and Sonnets by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, when acquired by the museum, shelf T38 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.
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London
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Handwritten letter from William Rossetti to an unnamed recipient, possibly Emery Walker, dated 12th August 1897. Found in ‘Ballads and Sonnets’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti..
3 ST EDMUND’S TERRACE
REGENT’S PARK. N.W.
12 August /97.
Dear Sir,
Dr. Birkbeck Hill[i] asked me a few days ago to furnish you with an authority such as the en-closed. I have pleasure in forwarding it accordingly.
Yours very faithfully
Wm. M Rossetti[ii]
[Footnotes:
[i]Dr Birkbeck Hill is George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1835 – 1903), an author and editor whose works include an edited collection of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[ii]William Michael. Rossetti (1829 – 1919) was a writer and critic. He was the brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Both were members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood CAW]
