Lizzie Siddal: Pre-Raphaelite: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

A like new hardback copy. Book appears unopened and unread, dust jacket is price clipped. Published by Andre Deutsch, 2004. 1st edition 1st printing. 230pp. 16 pp olour illustrations, notes and index. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6 [24cm x 15cm]. Mid blue boards, silver titles to the spine. Front cover and the rear flap show Millais' Ophelia. Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais' doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK.