[Letter] 1887 June 27 [to] [Dalziel Brothers] / W.M. Rossetti [William Michael Rossetti].

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Rossetti addresses questions about the arrangement of figures in a sketch of the burning of Shelley's body. Rossetti was aiding Edward Trelawny's publication of _Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author_, contacting the Daziel Brothers on behalf of Trelawny to discuss the correction of a woodcut to be included in this publication. Edward Trelawny was one of the men present at the burning of Shelley's body and claimed to have grabbed the heart from Shelley’s pyre (Rossetti composed a sonnet about this event). The Dalziel Brothers were popular nineteenth-century engravers and worked with Rossetti's artist brother Dante Gabriel for some woodcuts. However, Dante did not approve of their renditions of his work and even wrote a poem about it. William Michael Rossetti was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which advocated a return to painting unromanticized truth. Rossetti edited the Brotherhood's journal _Germ_ from 1850. His famous family included brother Dante Gabriel and sister Christina.