Pre-Raphaelite Prints: The Graphic Art of Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Their Followers - Hardcover

Engen, Rodney K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853316562 ISBN 13: 9780853316565

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Pre-Raphaelite Prints is the first book to be devoted solely to this vital chapter in the development of the Pre-Raphaelites. It discusses their etchings, reproductive engravings and book illustrations with full details for collectors, scholars and print dealers.
When faced initially with the hostility of the art world, the primary Pre-Raphaelite artists Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt used the populist medium of the print as a means of gaining mass appeal for their paintings, and of spreading the Pre-Raphaelite message to a wider audience.
Fully illustrated with reproductions of the most important works, this book shows how the innovative prints of Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais led to the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of densely drawn, jewel-like engravings of exquisite observation. Their prints became some of the most popular and treasured images of the Victorian period, and are still widely collected today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853316562
• ISBN 13: 9780853316565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128