Album of Portraits of Mrs. William Morris (Jane Burden) Posed by Rossetti, 1865

This book is an album of photographic prints that were made from photographs shot by John Parsons under Rossetti's directions. All the photos seem to have been shot on 7 June 1865 at Rossetti's house on Cheyne Walk. Most of the shots were taken outdoors, in the garden, but two were made indoors in the parlor. Some of the prints are original (dating from 1865), some were made later as an effort to preserve the images, which were seen to be fading. The latter were produced sometime early in the twentieth-century, as the extract from the letter of Emery Walker, included in this album, indicates.