May MorrisDante Gabriel Rossetti11872May MorrisWilliam Morris' younger daughter (b. 1862)
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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Reception
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Literary
Translation
Autobiographical
Bibliographic
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 174 (no. 362).
Private collection pastelMay MorrisDGR1872 1872 Probably chalk. Surtees says oil or watercolor, but in a letter DGR describes a chalk drawing of May
Morris (see
WMR,
Family Letters
, vol. 2, 265
).1