Production Description
Document Title: The Dusseldorf Artists Album
Author: Howitt, Mrs. Mary, editor and translator
Publisher: Treubner & Co.
Printer: G. D. Baedeker
City of publication: London
Date of publication: 1854
Edition: 1
Pagination: [i-ii], [1]-40 plus plates
Authorization: DGR
Note on Publication: The Dusseldorf Artists' Album was published originally in Dusseldorf
by Arnz & Co. from 1851-1866; the only English
translation was Mrs. Howitt's, in 1854; the English
poems, including Rossetti's, were not printed in the original German periodical.
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton U. Library, Troxell Collection
Catalog Number: nc1140.d8
Physical Description
Cover: paper cover with pictorial design; lettering in green, gold, and red
Point: 6
Lines per Page: 42
Columns: 2
Margin bottom: 2.1 cm
Margin right: 1.9 cm
Margin left: 1.7 cm
Dimensions of Document: 25x20cm
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Writer and journalist Mrs. Mary Howitt was a close friend of DGR and Elizabeth Siddal, and used the opportunity of translating a German periodical to publish some of DGR's work. She created an English version of the 1854 issue of The Dusseldorf Artists' Album, published in Germany (1851-6), and added to it works by several English poets, including DGR.
Printing History
The Dusseldorf Artists' Album was published originally in Dusseldorf by Arnz & Co. from 1851-1866; the only English “translation” was Mrs. Howitt's, in 1854; the English poems, including DGR's, were not printed in the original German periodical. A facsimile of the first page of the Album text is printed as the frontispiece in Troxell's critical edition of DGR's poem.