1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XGAB3 Rapid Rectilinear Lens

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Light scuff - bottom center

This is an original 1920 World War I sepia rotogravure of a scene of wartime destruction in the village of Cantigny

Keywords specific to this image: Skirmish Practice

the Chariclea delphinii

1939 Tipped-In Print Monna Pomona Dante Rossetti Portrait Dress Rose Apple XAN3 XGAB3 Rapid Rectilinear LensThis 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