At least three copies of this pose survive, Album of Portraits of
Mrs. William Morris (Jane Burden), Posed by Rossetti, 1865
The state of the two Victoria and Albert Museum prints tells much about DGR's
involvement with these photographs. In the V & A's other,
This paired print in the album shows DGR intervening on the original photograph. In this case he has used a brush to paint on the print and smooth out Mrs. Morris's dress (along the left sleeve and also among the folds by her left leg). The second print also illustrates a characteristic alteration of another kind that one finds in the album prints. This second print is much lighter and has been cropped so that the screen takes up virtually the whole of the background.
This is a modern print made sometime shortly before Bottomly put the album of prints together for May Morris.
Pre-Raphaelite
Photography
DGR 1828–1882: An Exhibition