Identifier: rossettisdantegacary00rich (find matches)
Title: The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 1867-1936
Subjects: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 Pre-Raphaelitism
Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Pvtnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ting again. This prettyhouse was a little removed from Heme Bay proper,at Hunters Forestall, and here Rossetti was joined byMr. Watts-Dunton and bv his mother and Christina. ^: *« 1 6 Zbc 1Ro90Ctti0. e an attached friend, and who ^tateliest of his various tall and for his unfinished picture, the Domi:(i,a >m an organic dis- a ne was suDject and which rend- uLion necessary. From the nervous .aid upon hirn he was slow in reviving, .. ,art to the subjugation of his system to c!^*>ral of which he continued to take heavy doses. he we hired ^e ofMary Magdal^imUh the^AldbaUenSi&^i of Phoiographed.Jiofif ofigi^^l^ pointing, hUherto tinj>h6tp^i^he^^\f \\courtesv offhe oivner. Mr. Samuel Rjiicroft h , ■la very lecamp. <^ncrificing a weeks But there o hel^ . for the house iier tongue resounded all over it. ait at our having b: She was at our late di( She was indi, it shut in . - . ren s walks This pretty hoi I little ren me Bay proper, )restall oined by ind by his d Christina.
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^he Closing l^ears, 197 His talk of painting again led to no result for sometime, and his improvement in health was muchretarded by the extreme depression of his spirits.The absolute lack of occupation is rotting my lifeaway, hour by hour, he had written home, shortlyafter his arrival. His companions vied with oneanother to lift his melancholy and spur him towardhis old pursuits, and Mr. Watts-Dunton has given adetailed account of the way in which the latter wasfinally accomplished. Rossetti, he says, was un-doubtedly very weak, but not nearly so weak ashis vivid imagination declared him to be. He wasconvinced that he would never be able to paintagain, and consequently, the moment he touchedthe brush, his hand shook as with the palsy, and thebrush fell from his fingers. Many an anxious con-ference we had as to the best means of grapplingwith this all-powerful imagination. An accident dis-closed the lines on which we could work. We gottalking about W. B. Scott and his absolute baldness

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