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Jane Morris reclining on divan

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Parsons

1865 June

Physical Description

Medium: photography
Technique: collodion print
Dimensions: 16.5 x 19.8 cm

Production Description

Production Date: 1865 June
Exhibition History: 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

Provenance

Current Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalog Number: 1744.1939
Note: The Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery has a print of the photograph (15.7 x 19.1 cm). The Victoria and Albert Museum's companion print (Record No. 824/42) has dimensions of 25.8 x 20.5 cm and is, like the Birmingham print, cut down from this original 1865 print.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of three prints made from a single negative. Mrs. Morris is reclining on a plush loveseat facing right with her head resting on a black pillow and turned slightly away from the viewer. Her hands are in her lap and the pose is set against a black backdrop. This print, made in 1865, was like the similar print in Birmingham, cropped down. The other V & A printis a modern copy made around 1930. It is much darker than this 1865 print and shows more background area, including part of a canopy and some of its upholding poles.

Bibliography

  • Bartram, Pre-Raphaelite Photography, 38-40.
  • Bartram, The Pre-Raphaelite Camera, Chapters 5-6.
  • DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition [Tokyo 1990], 186.
Jane Morris reclining on divan
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