Fanny Cornforth (née Sarah Cox) ('Lady Lilith') Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Fanny Cornforth (née Sarah Cox) ('Lady Lilith') NPG D37339
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by The Medici Society Ltd, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite artists' model cast predominantly as the 'fallen woman' by painters Dante Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and John Stanhope. According to her recollection, Rossetti encountered her one evening and flicked her hair with his finger 'Then made all sorts of apologies, and nothing would do but that I should go to his studio and sit for him'. Cornforth's life was punctuated by an unrequited relationship with Rossetti who never introduced her to his family, eventually abandoning their relationship and financial support. Banished from... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










