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a| Rossetti, Christina Georgina,
d| 1830-1894,
e| author.
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a| O uommibatto ... /
c| Christina Rossetti.
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a| [Beecroft, N.S.W.] :
b| Blackdawn Press,
c| 1989.
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a| 1 broadside :
b| illustration ;
c| 22 x 34 cm.
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a| still image
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a| text
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a| unmediated
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a| sheet
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a| Title from first line of poem.
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a| "50 copies for friends of the Blackdawn Press, 1989".
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a| Hand-set and hand-printed for private circulation to friends of the printer, Jürgen P. Wegner.
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a| Illustration reproduces Bewick's engraving of a wombat from A general history of quadrupeds (4th ed., 1800, p. 522).
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a| Dante Gabriel Rossetti was away in Scotland when his first pet wombat arrived in September 1869. In response to an enquiry, "Have you seen the Wombat?," his sister, Christina, sent him this poem in Italian entitled 'O Uommibatto.' John Simons translates it as "O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world: it's really the weight of a hemisphere, not a light burden." Christina also wrote an English distich as a motto for these verses: "When wombats do inspire, / I strike my disused lyre." Dante Gabriel Rossetti returned the favour by adding a wombat to his frontispiece for Christina's Goblin Market.
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3| Broadside 1237 copy
a| also available online
u| http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-531347881
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a| Top (1867-1869), the wombat celebrated in these verses, only briefly resided at the Cheyne Walk residence of the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Top was born near Hobart, Tasmania, sometime early in 1867, and was apparently transported to England in 1868 with Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh on his ship the Galatea. Top then lived for nearly a year with the London supplier of wild animals, Charles Jamrach, before entering the Rossetti household, where he was renowned for his charm and his contributions to literary and artistic dinners with acquaintances such as James Whistler, Algernon Swinburne, John Ruskin and Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Top died in London on 6 November 1869, and although his body was initially preserved by means of taxidermy, his resting place is now unknown.-Based on a cancelled entry for The Dictionary of National Biography.
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a| In Italian.
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a| Simons, John. Rossetti's wombat : Pre-Raphaelites and Australian animals in Victorian London. [London]: Middlesex University Press, 2008, page 108.
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a| Wombats
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a| Wombats
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a| Bewick, John,
d| 1760-1795,
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a| Wegner, J. P.,
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a| Blackdawn Press,
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z| National Library of Australia digitised item. Broadside 1237 copy
u| http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-531347881
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a| National Library of Australia
b| Parkes
c| Parkes
d| Special Collections Reading Room (PET [Specials 1])
e| Broadside 1237
h| Other scheme
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