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Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)

1862
Not on view
Christina Rossetti’s first book of verse, The Goblin Market, helped establish her as England’s leading female poet. The text concerns sisters tempted by goblins to consume delicious fruit symbolizing illicit desire. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s illustration captures the moment Laura succumbs and buys the wares offered by a group of animal-headed monsters as Lizzie carries water home in the background. Faulkner, whom the artist favored as an engraver, cut the block, and the bold results pleased Christina.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)
  • Artist: After Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea)
  • Draftsman: Drawn on the block by Charles Joseph Faulkner (British, 1833–1892)
  • Publisher: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.
  • Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti (British, London 1830–1894 London)
  • Date: 1862
  • Medium: Wood engraving
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (15 × 9.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Walter L. Hildberg, 1937
  • Object Number: 37.58.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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