Francesco Polidori

Note: The lithograph, along with a lithograph of Gaetano Polidori, was tipped into a copy of Il Losario: Poema Eroica Romanzesco di Ser Francesco Polidori, edited and augmented by his nephew Gaetano Polidori. MWR's endorsement is inscribed on verso free endpaper: “This book contains 2 lithographs done by D.G. Rossetti at the request of his grandfather Gataeno Polidori. The head of Francesco P. is a mere fancy-portrait; that of Gaetano P. is taken from a daguerreotype. The pencillings are the writing of Henry F. Polydore. WMR 1905.”