FREDERIC LEIGHTON AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ROMOLA

In the two years since its foundation The Cornhill had already established a reputation as a magazine with fine-art illustrations. The lantern on the floor in the illustration of a forge, 'Niccolo at Work' in Chapter 26, is taken from a drawing which the artist had made in the Strozzi Pala...

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Published inThe George Eliot review no. 45; p. 50
Main Author Ormond, Leonee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Coventry George Eliot Fellowship 01.01.2014
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British & Irish literature
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)
English literature
Illustrations
Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896)
Novels
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Summary:In the two years since its foundation The Cornhill had already established a reputation as a magazine with fine-art illustrations. The lantern on the floor in the illustration of a forge, 'Niccolo at Work' in Chapter 26, is taken from a drawing which the artist had made in the Strozzi Palace. George Eliot asked Leighton to look at the paintings by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the church of Santa Maria Novella as an aid to her work on the novel: 'I wish you would especially notice if the women in his groups have not that plain piece of opaque drapery over the head which haunts my memory'(RB, II, 101). In 'The Visible Madonna' in Chapter 44, which shows Romola helping to protect children from the famine, her hood is shown off her head so that her face is clearly visible.
ISSN:1358-345X