This photograph of "From the Antique," written by Christina Rossetti in 1854, is found in the book New Poems (published in 1896). New Poems is a collection of works that were written by Christina Rossetti, but not published or collected in her lifetime. Her brother, William Rossetti, found many of them in a range of seventeen notebooks of hers that she had composed by her mid-thirties. Her brother, William Rossetti, collected them after her death, as there was a large amount of public press and eulogy surrounding her death. He called her one of the most important figures in 19th century British poetic literature. In this poem, Rossetti expresses an unnamed Victorian woman's feelings of frustration and alienation, which she herself might have at times shared. Many suspect that the reason this poem was never published was due to the undeniable critique it would have likely endured coming from a woman's perspective.