Jane Morris pre raphaelite Muse (and her daughters): November 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

Astarte Syriaca with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Manchester art gallery

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=0377d371bc4bd86c046f8295207617d5&irn=163

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Morris family bible with the 1859 entry of the marriage of William and Jane.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

William Morris and DG Rossetti from Ken Russell's 'Dante's Inferno' .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALrhUSgkxY embedding disabled

Sunday, November 25, 2012

The Tragedy of Jenny Morris

My article on Jenny

http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-tragedy-of-jenny-morris.html?spref=fb

Monday, November 19, 2012

A Rosetti sketch from an album that belonged to Jane, that to my mind rather resembles her despite supposing to be a classical statue. On the sketch DGR has written :

PS. It also strikes me as possible that/Ned may have heard from you I wanted it/and [suit?] it" and dated in another hand: "20.9.78"

Philip Burne Jones

This is from an album owned by Jane (that went to May and was left to the British Museum) of early sketches by Philip Burne-Jones who was good friends with May and Jenny. Was this done for them ?

Children bowing before a dressed up pig, illustration to a rhyme, from an album of 60 caricature drawings
Graphite

Inscription Content: Signed with initials and inscribed with rhyme: "If a pig wore a wig/What could we say ..."

May's name

May was born at the Red House on the 25th March 1862, the feast of the Annunciation. Neither of her parents, Jane and William Morris were religious but she was given the name Mary quickly abbreviated to May, possibly because Mary was the generic name given to house maids.

Bed hanging
May Morris

1916
Linen with wool embroidery

Wightwick Manor

The bedspread in the guest room at Standen

The bedspread in the guest room at Standen is a brilliantly preserved piece by William's daughter, May Morris, which was recently discovered after having spent the 20th century hidden away in a trunk. Courtesy the National Trust, Standen.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/standen/

http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1215316