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touch of a vanished hand. (original) (raw)

The phrase "touch of a vanished hand" — itself virtually a Victorian icon — comes from the climactic section 95 of Tennyson's In Memoriam, where the poet's mystic experience provides the culmination of the hand imagery that runs through the poem. Here Beerbohm wryly applies it to the sordid matter of forgeries of Dante Rossetti's drawings by the adventurer, Charles Augustus Howell and Howell's artist-friend, Rosa Corder — George P. Landow

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. ]

Bibliography

Beerbohm, Max. Rossetti and His Circle. London: William Heinemann, 1922.

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