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Lady Lilith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(Delaware Art Museum)
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Lady Lilith is inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting of the same name.
Rossetti originally based the image on his mistress, Fanny Cornforth. He later repainted it with more classical features at the request of a customer who said she looked too “common.”
$295
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Rossetti wrote a poem to accompany this painting which is inscribed on its frame:
Of Adam’s first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve),
That, ere the snake’s, n’er sweet tongue could deceive,
And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
And still she sits, young while the earth is old,
And subtly of herself contemplative,
Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave.
Till heart and body and life are in its hold.
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