1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XAF8 to the Cape in South

to the Cape in South Africa

This is a rare original 1906 black and white print ad promoting furniture from Kalamazoo Sled Company located at 920 Third Street

Copyright © 1947 by Twentieth Century Music Corporation

This piece was illustrated by Grimmer

wood engraver

1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XAF8 to the Cape in SouthThis is an original 1939 tipped in color print of Dante Rossetti's Monna Pomona, an intriguing piece from the Pre Raphaelite movement. In ancient Roman mythology, Pomona was a wood nymph and goddess of gardens and orchards (etymologically, her name is derived from the Latin pomum, which refers to orchard fruit). That may be why the woman in this piece is lightly clasping an apple in one hand and holds roses in her lap. Why she is toying with her