picture poems?

Question

Where and when did picture poems originiate?Who were the main poets apart from Rossetti?

Answer 1

I think they originated in Indo-China but I have no watertight proof.

More poems here:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=all&va=poems&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8

and here:
http://www.geocities.com/picture_poems/events/station.htm

Another important player:

Rainer Maria Rilke

http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=Picture+poems&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=CN&x=wrt&meta=0&u=www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/&w=picture+poems+poem&d=J_1Z8vmdOoOm&icp=1&.intl=us
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