May Morris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1872
Model: May Morris (William Morris' younger daughter (b. 1862))

Bibliography

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 174 (no. 362).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the “very careful chalk-drawing of May, which will be worth 100 guineas” that DGR mentioned in a letter to his brother from Kelmscott of 2 November 1872 (see Fredeman, Correspondence, 72. 106.) See also the commentary for the chalk drawing of May's older sister Jennie, done apparently the year before.

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