Goblin Market - Golden Curl - 8x8 Print

Description

An illustration print from an excerpt of Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' poem. It illustrates the clipping of Laura's golden hair to pay the evil goblins for their tempting fruits.

This print is taken from an original illustration - one of a series of nine images measuring 8"x8" painted on blocks of wood. This was a preliminary drawing for a 2007 illustration exhibition at the Air Gallery in London.

This reproduction print measures approx 8"x8" (20cm x 23cm with NO border), is printed on FujiFilm Crystal Archive photographic paper and is part of a signed, open edition.

"Good folk, I have no coin;
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I have no silver either,
And all my gold is on the furze
That shakes in windy weather
Above the rusty heather."
"You have much gold upon your head,"
They answer'd all together:
"Buy from us with a golden curl."
She clipp'd a precious golden lock,
She dropp'd a tear more rare than pearl,
Then suck'd their fruit globes fair or red:
Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flow'd that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use? "

Added on Oct 19, 2009