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PRE-RAPHAELITISM IN DESIGN 139
shrine, and bending with worn and yet resolute
face over the holy water that awaits the pilgrim-
worshippers. His horse, bearing the white banner
marked with the red cross of sacred chivalry, stands
at the gate, and a group of nuns are seen within,
ringing the chapel bell.
The facile simplicity and grace of Millais, who
was more accustomed to the task of book-illustra-
tion than his collaborateurs, found favourable scope
in “Edward Grey” and “The Day-dream,” in
which the figure of the half-awakened girl in the
Sleeping Palace is drawn with exquisitely tender
charm.
The edition, on the whole, probably tended to
increase the reputation of the Pre-Raphaelites as
draughtsmen, and to dispel some hard-dying illu-
sions as to their distinguishing qualities in design,
though its independent merits were not of excep-
tional mark.
Only once again does Rossetti appear in the
field of book illustration. In 1862 he executed
two designs for the first volume of poems published
by his sister, Miss Christina Rossetti, under the
title of “ Goblin Market.” These drawings (“ Buy
from us with a golden curl ” and “ Golden head by
Golden head ”) were followed in 1866 by two more
of a similar character (“ The long hours go and
come and go,” and “You should have wept her
yesterday”), to illustrate the second volume of
shrine, and bending with worn and yet resolute
face over the holy water that awaits the pilgrim-
worshippers. His horse, bearing the white banner
marked with the red cross of sacred chivalry, stands
at the gate, and a group of nuns are seen within,
ringing the chapel bell.
The facile simplicity and grace of Millais, who
was more accustomed to the task of book-illustra-
tion than his collaborateurs, found favourable scope
in “Edward Grey” and “The Day-dream,” in
which the figure of the half-awakened girl in the
Sleeping Palace is drawn with exquisitely tender
charm.
The edition, on the whole, probably tended to
increase the reputation of the Pre-Raphaelites as
draughtsmen, and to dispel some hard-dying illu-
sions as to their distinguishing qualities in design,
though its independent merits were not of excep-
tional mark.
Only once again does Rossetti appear in the
field of book illustration. In 1862 he executed
two designs for the first volume of poems published
by his sister, Miss Christina Rossetti, under the
title of “ Goblin Market.” These drawings (“ Buy
from us with a golden curl ” and “ Golden head by
Golden head ”) were followed in 1866 by two more
of a similar character (“ The long hours go and
come and go,” and “You should have wept her
yesterday”), to illustrate the second volume of