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 The illustration depicts a man sleeping in bed with his mouth open; he wears a nightcap, and only his face is visible above the covers. A miniature sultan, with a dark visage and an immense moustache... |
 This image depicts an icescape in fog. The immediate foreground features a prominent rock jutting out of the ground to the left, next to what appears to be a large vertebra. The center portion of the... |
 John Auldjo, the artist himself, stands on the far right of the image, poking the lava with a cane and holding a cloth over his mouth. In the background, the eruption of Vesuvius’ small cone, Monte... |
 The image depicts a momument, inscribed with an epitaph, in two parts: the topmost figure appears to be the top of a momument, while the figure below it may be the base. The upper part is decorated... |
 The frame is split between a rocky shore bordering an icy sea and an expanse of gray sky, with clouds scudding low on the horizon. Five people sit around a pot on an outcropping of rock to the far... |
 This image depicts a naval battle between two ships. Each ship flies its colors in three flags prominently displayed, although one of the American flags appears to have only stripes. Cannon smoke... |
 The image shows a young man reading; he sits at a generously laid table, and a woman standing behind it pours water into a teapot. In front of the man, an open chest filled with loose pages draws the... |
 A crew rows their boat away from the viewer and towards the mouth of a river in lightly choppy seas. A man standing in back steers with the rudder oar. A sand beach extends on the left, while bluffs... |
 This print portrays Lord Byron as the quintessential Romantic poet. He sits in three-quarter view, his face turned in profile to the left and resting on his right hand in the archetypal thinking pose... |
 Satan and Jesus are silhouetted on the right at the edge of a cliff. A serpent hangs from a cliff on the left. Cities and rivers are revealed far below them, from the bottom of the print to about 2/3... |
 This image, Plate 17 of Bell's illustrations, depicts the three small bones of the ear. Bell describes it as such:
The natural size of these bones is shown in Fig. 1 Plate 17, (the orbicular bone... |
 This image depicts a death's-head moth on a white background, with wings outstretched.3This image depicts a death's-head moth on a white background, with wings outstretched. |
 This image provides multiple illustrations of skulls and famous busts, providing measurements for each by which organ size can be determined. Note especially the famous political figures, as well as... |
 Cliffs, presumably near New Weir (spelled “New Wear” in the title), stretch upward, taking up most of the left half of the print. In the foreground, at the foot of the cliffs, is a small house. A... |
 The image shows a young man in profile, lying with his eyes closed, knees slightly bent, on a bed with its curtain pushed to one side. In front, next to the bed, a book lies open, face-down, on the... |
 The image depicts a hairless head, with numbers mapped upon the exposed skin and face, indicating the location of the organs. The corresponding text identifies which characteristic or faculty is... |
 In his A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Andrew Ure provides a lengthy explanation for the mechanical workings displayed in this simple line-drawing. He begins by describing its... |
 A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey.3A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey. |
 This chart provides the "average," "full," "large," "very large," "moderate," "small," and "very small" sizes of the organs measured in each phrenological category.3This chart provides the "average... |
 This image, Plate 16 of Bell's illustrations, depicts the inner ear. Bell describes it as such: "These are the mastoid cells. They are thought to strengthen the effect of the sound, by reverberating... |
 This image provides multiple illustrations of skulls and famous busts, providing measurements for each by which organ size can be determined. Note especially the famous political figures, as well as... |
 At least fourteen ships are engaged in battle. Dark smoke billows up from the surface of the water on the left horizon line, spreading to either side of the sky and obscuring the entire top of the... |
 In this drawing of a printing machine patented by “Messrs. Applegath and Cowper,” two men work at the press while one man operates a fly-wheel pulley system. The figure at the back of the machine... |
 The image is divided down the center of the page into two parts. On the left, a man holds an axe over his head, preparing to chop at the base of a tree. There is a severed tree limb lying on the... |
 Two men on the far right of the frame stand near a campfire and tent on the banks of Hoarfrost River. The closer man stands with his back to the viewer, next to a basket and what appears to be a... |
 The image is set in what appears to be a schoolroom. The master holds a stick above his head, preparing to give "strokes" to the young boy he grips by the elbow. The boy, dressed in a long coat and... |
 A ship is tipped towards the viewer, almost completely submerged by a wave crashing over it. Only the main mast, part of a second mast, and a sliver of the deck rise above the tumultuous water. Men... |
 Similar to the central figure of A Hindoo Female, the subject of The Rajpootnee Bride is initially striking on account her size; the female body fills the space of the image. The... |
 This image portrays an icescape with distant mountains. The Arctic sun is low on the horizon, and smoke-like clouds extend in a widening mass from the far right of the image to the upper left corner... |
 This image depicts a confrontation between an American and a British ship, each displaying their national flag. The flag of the British ship, on the left, is upside down. Both ships have tattered... |
 Twelve portraits are given in this collection of figures: the second features a woman and two children, while the rest are individual portraits. The members of the dinner party, many portrayed... |
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti's St. Catherine is a painting (oil on canvas) now housed at Tate Britain. The model for the painting was Elizabeth Siddal. John Ruskin commissioned the work, but later... |
 A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This painting (watercolour over pen and ink) was one of the first appearances of Elizabeth Siddal in... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's St. George and the Princess Sabra is a watercolor painting on... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This painting (oil on panel) was completed in 1860. The model is Elizabeth Siddal. Virginia... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti describes this watercolour in his note to the accompanying poem (published in... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Virginia Surtees points out that this watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was "Possibly originally... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (oil on canvas), was begun... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice is a watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (sepia, pen and brush) is not catalogued in Virginia Surtees... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This remarkable picture by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is a watercolor painted over a carte de visite... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This watercolour and graphite drawing of Elizabeth Siddal (on paper, laid on fine linen on a... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Ecce Ancilla Domini! (oil on canvas) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a companion piece to The... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This watercolour on paper by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was commissioned by John Ruskin in 1855. The... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
Executed in late 1857 and exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1858, this "A Christmas Carol" by... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This drawing of Christina Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (colored chalk on blue-gray paper) was... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
There is only one version of this picture by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a small watercolor in the... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is often (and not incorrectly) read as a memorial to his wife... |
A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location.
This painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is watercolour, pencil, and gum arabic heightened with... |
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti's original portrait of Christina Rossetti was completed around 1850. As William Michael Rossetti explains, "The portrait of my sister given in the present volume is taken from... |