Jane Morris seated in a wicker chair, three quarter length
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Parsons
1865
Physical Description
Medium: photograph
Technique: collodion print
Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.2 cm
Production Description
Production Date: 1865
Provenance
Current Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalog Number: 1737,1939
Note: The Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery has
another, smaller print of
the photograph (20.5 x 14.8 cm). The Victoria and Albert has a
second copy in which the print is much lighter and the image severely cropped
(Record No. 819,42). This second print measures 25.3 x 20.4cm.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Mrs. Morris facing right, seated in a wicker chair with her hands
in her lap. The scene is DGR's garden with a two-layered backdrop framing
the sitter. In the far background and only partly visible stands the decorated screen DGR used in
another pose from this series; just in
front of the screen is a large black cloth that serves as the
immediate background to the seated figure.
Two versions of this shot are included in the
album of Jane Morris Photographs put together
in 1933 by Gordon Bottomly; they are the third and fourth in the sequence of
twenty-eight prints in the album. The
second of the two is much more closely cropped
so that one loses the double-layered framing effect; in the second image only
a small fragment of the decorated screen is visible at the bottom left
Production History
This is an original print made in 1865.
Bibliography
Bartram,
Pre-Raphaelite
Photography
, 38-40.
Bartram,
The
Pre-Raphaelite Camera
, Chapters 5-6.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Mrs. Morris facing right, seated in a wicker chair with her hands in her lap. The scene is DGR's garden with a two-layered backdrop framing the sitter. In the far background and only partly visible stands the decorated screen DGR used in another pose from this series; just in front of the screen is a large black cloth that serves as the immediate background to the seated figure.
Two versions of this shot are included in the album of Jane Morris Photographs put together in 1933 by Gordon Bottomly; they are the third and fourth in the sequence of twenty-eight prints in the album. The second of the two is much more closely cropped so that one loses the double-layered framing effect; in the second image only a small fragment of the decorated screen is visible at the bottom left
Production History
This is an original print made in 1865.
Bibliography