SELLING ROSETTI
Few poets may .be . expected to attend the International Advertising Conference in Glasgow, but it may be recalled that the subject was one on which Dante Gabriel Rosetti had novel ideas, says the "Manchester Guardian." At one time he told his friends he was thinking of buying a young elephant and teaching it to clean his windows. "Then," said he, "passers-by, seeing an elephant cleaning the windows, will ask, 'Who lives in that house?' and when told 'Rossetti, the painter-poet,' they will think, 'I should like to buy some of that man's wares,', and so they ring the bell and come in and buy"! I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 22
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107SELLING ROSETTI Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 22
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