Daniel Gabriel Rossetti - 'The Blessed Damozel'

Technique

The gold frame may not have been designed by Rossetti. The heavy baroque pediment and narrow columns are motifs that differ radically from his other frame designs. The overall format is reminiscent of seventeenth-century stone memorial plaques on church walls. Originally the picture hung in Leyland's London house in a drawing room full of gilt furniture. This may in part have dictated the frame's appearance. Alexa Wilding modelled the figure of the Damozel.

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