Introduction
In February 1840 DGR made twenty-seven illustrations for Homer's
Iliad
“to please his sister Maria, who. . .was well acquainted with Pope's translation” (
Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné
,
1
). The drawings remain in the family, with a few having been reproduced by Marillier. Of the drawings WMR observes that they “are not in any tolerable degree good, nor even distinctly
promising; but they may count for something as showing the lad's ambitious
temper in design, and his willingness to take up any attempt that offered,
however ludicrously inadequate his means for coping with it” (
WMR,
Family Letters
, I. 81
).
Bibliographic
Marillier,
DGR: An Illustrated Memorial
, 212.
WMR,
Family Letters
, vol. I, 81
Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné
,
vol. 1, 1 (no. 3).