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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 6 - The Last Decade, 1873-1882: Kelmscott to Birchington I. 1873-1874 (Hardcover)
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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 6 - The Last Decade, 1873-1882: Kelmscott to Birchington I. 1873-1874 (Hardcover)
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The sixth volume of Rossetti's correspondence covers a particularly
energetic period of artistic activity and dealings with patrons,
his new agent C.A. Howell, dealers and friends. Rossetti's return
to Kelmscott in September 1872, following his breakdown and
recovery charted in volume 5, commenced a period of artistic
activity which was at its most energetic in the years 1873-1874.
Because of the isolationof Kelmscott, he engaged C.A. Howell as his
agent, and trusted him to find new buyers and assist in
negotiations with his principal patrons. A complex character who "
whirled us...in a tornado of lies", he could nevertheless
sellpictures, negotiate with mercurial buyers and tolerate
Rossetti's peremptory ways. We are fortunate, too, in having
Rossetti's letters to the demanding patron Frederick Leyland. The
letters demonstrate that in Leyland, Rossettimore than met his
match, but neither the friendship nor the patronage foundered.
Previously valued friends exhausted his patience: Swinburne, for
example, is "the crowning nuisance of the whole world." At the same
time,he unreservedly acknowledged debts and obligations, in
particular to F.M. Brown and his brother William (to both of whom
he owed "more in life" than to anyone else); and friends in need
could always count on his generosity. WhenJames Hannay's death left
his family in uncertain circumstances, Rossetti acted immediately:
"I have no family of my own to provide for, & am therefore
doubly bound to do what I can for an old friend's children."
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