At the British Museum
Mary Wellesley: ‘Feminine Power’, 22 September 2022
“... what Bahrām-Gušnasp would have made of the image.Lilith also fascinated the Pre-Raphaelites. In Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith, she is an auburn-haired beauty admiring her image in a mirror, surrounded by roses and poppies. Rossetti wrote a sonnet to accompany the painting, where she is the ‘witch he [Adam] loved before the gift of ... ”