Jane Morris seated, leaning forward Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Parsons 1 © Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery [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 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery photography collodion print 14.9 x 14.1 cm Jane Morris, seated, leaning forward with her head turned to the right, resting on her hand, and facing the viewer. A second copy is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jane Morris <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> This well-known photograph depicts Jane Morris seated, leaning forward with her head turned to the right, resting on her hand, and facing the viewer. DGR posed her in this striking posture and later recurred to the composition in his painting <xref doc="a.s206.rap"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">Reverie</hi> , done in 1868; the sitter was again Jane Morris.

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Bartram, <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], 187.