Letters
Mentions of Lizzie in Rossetti’s letters to his family:
A full textual transcription of Rossetti’s family letters can be found at The Rossetti Archive. For the purposes of this post, I have only selected letters that mention Elizabeth Siddal in an effort to see how Gabriel communicated with his family in regards to his relationship with her. Taken from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters [...]
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Letter from Rossetti to his brother while his “pupil” uses his studio
In 1853, while Lizzie was known as Gabriel’s pupil, she painted in his studio while he was visiting the Scott (William Bell Scott) family in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Gabriel mentions this in a letter to his brother, William Michael Rossetti. I believe that this was when Lizzie painted her only self portrait. If you look at all [...]
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Letters Written by Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal, drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. On a personal note, this is one of my favorite drawings of Lizzie by D.G.R. The angle of her face, the feeling of closeness, the way she looks lost in her own thoughts. . . I find that reading Lizzie’s letters, although they are often brief, gives a [...]
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