1. Jan Marsh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p. 339.
2. Quoted in Lionel Lambourne, The Aesthetic Movement (Oxford: Phaidon, 1996), p. 120.
3. See Anne Anderson, ‘“The Mutual Admiration Society” or Mr Punch against the Aesthetes’, Popular Narrative Media, 2 (2009), 69–88.
4. Henry James, ‘The Picture Season in London, 1877’, in The Painter’s Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts by Henry James, ed. John L. Sweeney (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), p. 146. The sunflower expressed perpetual longings, denoting on the one hand constancy, devotion, and adoration but also signifying grief, sorrow, suffering, unrequited love, yearning, and desire. The sunflower came to encapsulate the ‘death-wish’, for it was Blake’s sunflower ‘weary of time’.
5. Frederick Wedmore, ‘Some Tendencies in Recent Painting’, Temple Bar, 53 (1878), 339.