The Maids of Elfen-Mere Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Maids of Elfen-Mere DGR 1854 New Gallery 1897 (no.17) unknown Mrs. Helen Allingham pen and ink 9 x 8 1/2 in. Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 59. <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This pen and ink drawing for Allingham's poem presents a distinctive imagining of the text. The notes for the 1897 New Gallery exhibition (no.17) offer the following description: “<quote>Small full-length figure of a youth seated at a table and listening in rapt mood to the chaunt of four mystic supernatural women in shadowy forms before him. A design made for the frontispiece of Allingham's <xref doc="a.allingham001.rad" link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Day and Night Songs</hi> ” (Surtees 32). No reproductions are known to exist.

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Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 59. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1,32 (no. 67).