Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 - 1882, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837 - 1909, lived here.
London County Council
SW3, Cheyne Walk, 16
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a raccoon and a wombat which had a liking for ladies’ hats. Consequently local house leases now forbid the keeping of such creatures.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rossetti & Swinburne
Poet & painter. Born 38 Charlotte Street, son of an Italian political refugee...
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rossetti & Swinburne
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