Dante Gabriel Rossetti, In His Back Garden.
[Max Beerbohm] [London: William Heinemann, 1904 ] Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 535mm (15 x 21") Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. From 'The Poets’ Corner'. Rossetti, who appears sketching Fanny Cornforth at lower left, and continuing counter-clockwise, the figures are J. M. Whistler, A. C. Swinburne, Theodore Watts-Dunton, George Meredith, William Morris, William Bell Scott, William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, and Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti's mistress and model; Sir Edward Burne Jones presents a flower to a kangaroo. The painter and poet D. G. Rossetti (1828–1882) actually did keep a menagerie of exotic animals, from peacocks to wombats, at his London house. Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872–1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max.
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