This progress proof, the second for ‘King Arthur’, presents another round of Rossetti’s annotations in which he continues the focus on the queens’ heads. He also insists on the blackness of the printing, and disliked pale or under-inked designs. 137 x 80 mm. The illustration was published as the second image for ‘The Palace of Art’ in Tennyson’s Poems (London: Moxon, 1857), 113.
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