Included Text
Landlord Rampant
Note: This title is written above the shield, with the works written on either side of Rossetti's self-caricature.
My Stars!
Note: This exclamation is written in a speech balloon on the shield.
I Bide My Time
Note: This motto is written on the banner below the shield.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The drawing is made at the end of a letter to William Bell Scott of 13 July 1853 (see Fredeman, Correspondence, 53.43, where the drawing is reproduced in facsimile).
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