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St George and the DragonDante Gabriel Rossetti
Date: 1872
Materials: Stained glass
The Birmingham set of windows lacks the third subject in the series, 'The Princess Sabra taken to the Dragon', although the Museum does possess the cartoon: 'How the woeful Princess was borne to be eaten of the Dragon'.
The head of St George is said to have been modelled from Charles Augustus Howell (1840-1890), a figure with a murky background within the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Howell was a flamboyant character although rather a shady entrepreneur. Howell acted as Rossetti's intermediary in arranging the exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal's coffin in order to rescue a book of manuscript poems. |
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