Proserpine
A museum-exhibition poster of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine — Proserpine — the goddess of the underworld with the fateful pomegranate, in deep green drapery — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Pre-Raphaelites, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
- Year
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 125.1 × 61 cm
- Collection
- Tate Britain, London
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite
Proserpine, queen of the underworld, stands in a narrow upright canvas holding a bitten pomegranate, the fruit that bound her to Hades for half of every year, with a shaft of daylight from the world above falling on the wall behind her and a sprig of ivy for clinging memory. The model is Jane Morris, wife of William Morris, with whom Rossetti was in love; her heavy dark hair, long neck and full mouth became the type of beauty he painted obsessively in his last decade. He made at least eight versions of the composition between 1871 and 1882, and this one, completed in 1874, carries his sonnet on the subject in the upper right corner. It was given to the Tate in 1940 and is the version most often reproduced.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
