Review Rossettis obsession

http://www.reflectionsonjanemorris.com/rossettis-obsession/

Pre-Raphaelite Passion by Gillian Gamble

The Muse who never smiled

Posed by D.G Rossetti and photographed by John R Parsons in 1865

Photographed by Emery Walker 1898

How Rossetti used the Jane photographs

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/sa140.raw.html

The painting is Reverie of 1868. The photo was taken in Rossetti's garden in London in July 1865.

Jane Morris by Parson

1865
Parsons, John R. (photographer)

Still rather a puzzle. Taken by Parsons (directed by Rossetti) in the same session as the other famous prints; it seems to be taken in Rossetti's house but was never used for any painting that has been identified. The V&A has black and white and sepia copies. The vase and bust seem carefully placed but what it meant, no one seems to know. Some incident in the life of Beatrice ? of which Rossetti was an expert. Intriguing.

Jane and May Morris

Jane Morris with May

Jane in the year she died

Jane in the year she died.
Phillips, Harry F (photographer)
1914
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case X, shelf 610, box B (V&A)

Jane in Sienna in 1881

Jane in Sienna in 1881 with Thomas James Sanderson, Jane Cobden and her sister Annie who Thomas later married changing his name to Cobden-Sandersen.

Burne-Jones & Morris Children

Burne-Jones & Morris Children; Portraits of many persons of note photographed by Frederick Hollyer

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O103161/photograph-burne-jones-morris-children-portraits/

Evelyn Waugh book

The Evelyn Waugh book is not on line, copyright I presume, but in Violet Hunt's The Wife of Rossetti (1932) the life of Lizzie on Archive.org is this photograph of Jane.

Really interesting background on this photograph

http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Rossetti_JaneMorris.htm

Jane in older age

Jane Morris, posed by Rossetti 1865

Albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass negative

Dr Robert Steele presented to the V&A (in 1939) the album bound in Morris fabric and containing the original 19th century albumen prints, then (in 1942) the modern prints made from the original negatives, which then belonged to the granddaughter of William Michael Rossetti.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1092319/photograph-jane-morris-posed-by-rossetti/

Jane sitting in the garden

I've enlarged this slightly and tried to bring out more details. I haven't got Photoshop but you can see more I think.
vintage snapshot print, late 1900s
2 7/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (73 mm x 100 mm) image size
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw129115/Jane-Morris-ne-Burden?LinkID=mp03187&search=sas&sText=jane+morris&role=sit&rNo=14

Jane Morris seated in wicker chair

Jane Morris seated in wicker chair, full length
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Parsons
1865 June

At least three copies of this pose survive, one in the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, the other two in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Album of Portraits of Mrs. William Morris (Jane Burden). Posed by Rossetti, 1865 . This is the larger of the two Victoria and Albert prints.

The state of the two Victoria and Albert Museum prints tells much about DGR's involvement with these photographs. In this, the larger copy, a good deal of space is left around the sitter, who is seated in DGR's garden, in full view, and facing to her right. A decorated screen is placed a few feet behind her; beyond that is foliage, though it is scarcely discernible as such. The print shows where Gordon Bottomly worked on the original print with a brush to disguise where the top of the print had been damaged during later efforts to mount it.

Jane by Parsons

But this one is not often shown as she looks so awkward holding her dress like that and her hair blown about. Almost like a snap shot.
1865
Musee d'Orsay

May Morris by Unknown photographer platinum print, circa 1880s-1890s

Enhanced Jane Morris (née Burden) by Unknown photographer vintage snapshot print, late 1900

May Morris by Unknown photographer cyanotype, early 1890s