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CHAPTER V.

LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE MOVEMENT.

The Pre-Raphaelites as Book-Illustrators—Moxon’s “ Tenny-
son ”—The “ Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ”—The
Oxford Frescoes—Oxford Patrons of Millais and Hunt-
Departure of Hunt for Palestine—The Pictures of Madox
Brown—Further Developments of Rossetti’s Painting-
Marriage and Bereavement—“ Beata Beatrix ”—Replicas
—Life at Chelsea—Later Models—Designs for Stained
Glass—Visit to Penkill—“ Dante’s Dream ”—Publication
and Reception of the “ Poems ”—Paintings of Rossetti’s
Last Decade—Death at Birchington.

THE first and most fruitful decade of Pre-
Raphaelitism in painting and poetry saw
also the excursion of several of its leaders
into the realm of book-illustration. In 1855 Ros-
setti, Millais, and Arthur Hughes combined to
make a series of drawings for the second edition
of a little volume of verse entitled “ Day and Night
Songs,” by William Allingham, a young poet well
known to the Brotherhood since 1849. The efforts
were not of an ambitious character. The weird
little group of fairies dancing in the moonlight, by