Jane Burden Morris [picture].

Record ID: 
285388
Accession number: 
MA 3000.137
Author: 
Parsons, John R., 1826-1909.
Published: 
[19--?]
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Governor and Mrs. Elmer L. Andersen, 1977.
Description: 
1 photomechanical print : b&w ; 213 x 152 mm
Notes: 

Jane Burden Morris was the wife of William Morris and a frequent model for both Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The original photograph from which this print was made was one of a set of photographs of her commissioned by Rossetti, photographed by John R. Parsons, and originally printed by Emery Walker.
Part of a collection of 134 autograph letters, mostly to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and 20 photographs and prints; items in the collection are described individually in 154 records (MA 3000.1-154).

Summary: 

Full-length portrait of English embroiderer and artist's model Jane Morris, seated and facing left.

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