Jane Morris standing, in marquee

As with a number of photographs in the Jane Morris series, at least three copies of this pose survive, one print in the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, this copy (which is, like the latter, a nineteenth-centry print), and another (modern) print also in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Album of Portraits of Mrs. William Morris (Jane Burden). Posed by Rossetti, 1865 .

This picture is one of the most remarkable in the series, and the two prints that are preserved in the Victoria and Albert album make a nice contrast. Mrs. Morris is posed outdoors against the backdrop of a billowing canopy, with her hands clasped at her midriff. She is turned facing the camera, though she looks away to the right. The other V & A print is a modern print and shows the composition of the original negative. The Birmingham print, which is a replica of this cropped version, does not display the framing effect that comes through in this image.

This pose is very close in style to another pose also composed outdoors in the marquee. Mrs. Morris' odd posture indicates that she must be half standing, half sitting on some sort of pedestal.

• Bartram, Pre-Raphaelite Photography, 38-40.
• Bartram, The Pre-Raphaelite Camera , Chapter 6.
• DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition [Tokyo 1990], 187 (no. 153).