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Title: The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 1867-1936
Subjects: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 Pre-Raphaelitism
Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Pvtnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ern landscape shielded from the sun exceptwhere a single ray might touch a cardinal-flower.The white roses with their occasional pink buds aresoftened to a warm grey tone mottling the back-ground in dim patches ; the wealth of tumbling hairthrough which Lilith is drawing her comb is darkred in its shadow, a dusky brown in its half-tones,with crisp gold high lights on the crests of its richwaves; the dress and mantle are nearly all in partialshadow; the firm flesh of the throat and bust,modelled with a feeling for massive forms greatlyunlike the slim shapes of Rossettis early pictures, isdark for the fair skin of the face, with warm green-ish tones ; the reds that gleam through the colourscheme like a bright thread in tapestry, range fromthe reddish violet of the foxglove, through the crim-son cord of the hand mirror, the coral bracelet, thered of the mouth and the scarcely deeper red ofthe poppy, to the shadows of the hair. The eyesare grey ; the sunny landscape reflected in the glass
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