Photo by Francesc Català Roca, via all things amazing.
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“The M’s at Ems,” by Rossetti Dante Gabriel, 1869. Image (larger available) via all things amazing.
Via British Museum: “The designer and writer William Morris (1834-1896) accompanied his wife Jane to the German spa town of Ems in order to improve her health. This drawing of the couple by Rossetti was enclosed in a letter to Jane with the comment ‘The accompanying cartoon will prepare you for the worst - which ever that may be, the seven tumblers or the 7 volumes’. In other words, drinking vast quantities of spa water was likely to be less traumatic than listening to William Morris reading from his lengthy new book The Earthly Paradise (published 1868).”