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Proserpine, unfinished, was painted nearly two decades after they met, when they had become lovers.
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The Head of Proserpine is an 1872 portrait of Oxford-born Jane Morris by her lover Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Dragged down to the underworld, Proserpine ate six pomegranate seeds, meaning she had to stay for six months each year.
BBC: Rossetti painting of Oxford's Jane Morris to be sold
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The subject shows Morris as the Greek mythological figure of Proserpine.
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Boyce in 1873: "I am hard at work on a picture of Proserpine, which I have begun and re-begun time after time, being resolved to make it the best I could do".
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Many of the show's terra-cotta heads and smaller statues are of Demeter, the goddess of good harvests, or of her daughter Proserpine, forced to become the queen of the underworld when she was abducted by Hades, its king.
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