Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882), Lady Lilith (1867; Wasserfarben-Replik des später übermalten, untestehenden Originals; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Beware of her fair hair, for she excells
All women in the magic of her locks,
And when she twines them round a young man’s neck
she will not ever set him free again.

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) & Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822), Faust. A Tragedy (Rahmenbeschriftung der Replik)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882), Lady Lilith (1866 – 1867/1872 – 1873 überarbeitet; Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum)