In 1831 Louisa Ruth Herbert was born.
Between 1855 and 1859. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 26]. Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 24].
Diary of Ford Madox Brown. 19th February 1856. All day after the tickets for the Princess' Theatre. In the evening went there to the Dress Circle with Emma & the 2 children & William Rossetti. Gabriel who had chiefly made up the party having decided that he could not go because he must go again that night to the strand Theatre to see a certain stunner.10 Katty after the play told William who was allud- ing to the Angels in Henry VIII "that she once saw some real angels up in the sky".
Note 10. The Princess's Theatre was giving Shakespeare's Henry VIII with Mr and Mrs Charles Kean in the roles of Cardinal Wolsey and Queen Katherine. Meanwhile Rossetti had gone to admire his "Stunner No 1" Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 25], who was playing that evening in a "Favourite Commedietta", Time Tries all, and a farce, Never Despair.
1858. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 29]. Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 27].
1858. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 29]. "The Chapel before the Lists". Model Miss Herbert [aged 27].
1858. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 29]. "Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee". Model Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 27].
Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1858. On 1st June 1858 Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 30] wrote to William Bell Scott [aged 47]:
I am in the stunning position this morning of expecting the actual visit, at ½ past 11, of a model whom I have been longing to paint for years - Miss Herbert [aged 27] of the Olympic Theatre - who has the most varied and highest expression I ever saw in a woman's face, besides abundant beauty, golden hair, etc. Did you ever see her? O my eye! she has sat to me now and will sit to me for Mary Magdalene in the picture I am beginning. Such luck!'.
20th September 1858. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 30]. Drawing of Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 27].
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1858. 15th December 1858. To Rossetti [aged 30]. The new things I noticed were an intensely impressive water colour of the Virgin in the house of John, the latter seated at the window and striking a light and looking out upon Jerusalem at twilight. The Virgin is spinning. A Knight girded for combat embracing his Lady Love [The Chapel before the Lists]. Several studies of Miss Herbert [aged 27] (Mrs. Crabbe). A most beautiful pen and ink study of Topsy's (Morris's) "Stunner" at Oxford. He showed me some fine medieval drapery and some gorgeous Eastern pieces lent him from the India House. We went off at dusk and dined at the Cock, and afterwards adjourned to 24 Dean St., Soho, to see "Fanny [aged 23]." Interesting face and jolly hair and engaging disposition.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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1859. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 30]. "Mary in the House of St John". Model Miss Herbert [aged 28].
1876. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 47]. Drawing of Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 45].
1877. Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 48]. Drawing of Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 46].
In 1887 [her son-in-law] Brigadier-General Herbert Conyers Surtees [aged 28] and [her daughter] Madeline Augusta Crabbe were married.
In 1921 Louisa Ruth Herbert [aged 90] died.
[her daughter] Madeline Augusta Crabbe was born to Edward Crabbe and Louisa Ruth Herbert. She married 1887 Brigadier-General Herbert Conyers Surtees.