FREDERIC LEIGHTON AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ROMOLA

• Published in: The George Eliot review no. 45; p. 50
• Main Author: Ormond, Leonee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Coventry George Eliot Fellowship 01.01.2014
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880); English literature; Illustrations; Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896); Novels

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...