Jane Morris seated, three quarter length Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Parsons 1 © V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum [untitled] DGR and John Parsons 1865 June R.A., 1973; Pre-Raphaelite Photography, A British Council Exhibition, 1983; Dante Gabriel Rossetti Exhibition, UK90 Festival: Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, September 22 through November 14, 1990; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, November 21 through December 9, 1990; Ishibashi Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Kurume, January 6 through February 11, 1991 Victoria and Albert Museum 819,42 The Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery has a print of the photograph (20.5 x 14.8 cm). It is a close duplicate of a second print in the Victoria and Albert (22.2 x 16.2 cm, record numbert 1737, 1939). photography collodion print 25.3 x 20.4 cm <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Mrs. Morris facing right, seated in a wicker chair with her hands in her lap. The scene is DGR's garden with a two-layered backdrop framing the sitter. Farthest back and only partly visible is the decorated screen DGR used in <xref doc="a.sa140a.rap">another pose</xref> from this series; just in front of the screen is a large black cloth that serves as the immediate background to the seated figure.</p> <p>Two versions of this shot are included in the <xref doc="a.bottomly.rad">album of Jane Morris Photographs</xref> put together in 1933 by Gordon Bottomly; they are the third and fourth in the sequence of twenty-eight prints in the album. The <xref doc="a.sa140bb.tif">second of the two</xref> is much more closely cropped so that one loses the double-layered framing effect; in the second image only a small fragment of the decorated screen is visible at the bottom left.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Bartram</author>, <xref doc="a.bartram001.rad" link="dead" from="38" to="40" workcode="sa140"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Photography</hi> , 38-40. Bartram, <hi rend="i">The Pre-Raphaelite Camera</hi> , chapters 5-6. <hi rend="i">DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition</hi> [Tokyo 1990], 185.