Love's Mirror or A Parable of Love

Love's Mirror or A Parable of Love is black pen and ink over pencil with ink wash on paper made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti sometime from 1850-1852.

• Rossetti uses hatching and cross hatching to create differing values throughout the drawing.
• The pattern on the brunette's dress draws more attention to her because it contrasts with solid clothes of everyone else.
• The emphasis is on the faces of the couple. The woman's face is seen in real life, the painting, and the mirror, and the man gazes directly into the mirror. This drawing seems to want to show that there are multiple sides to everything. Even the two facial expressions of the ladies in the background add to this idea.