Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

Thora Brylowe is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Introduction; 1. Original copies: Wedgwood's Portland Vase in paint and poem; 2. William Blake, antiquarians, and the status of copy; 3. Literary galleries and the media ecology: painting for print in the age of anthologies; 4. Poetry against the wall: the (sister) arts in crisis; 5. Crossing the line: engraving, John Landseer and the aftermath of the Shakespeare gallery; 6. Ravaged brides: Grecian urns on romantic paper; Bibliography; Index.