Saturday, February 16, 2013

Margje Bijl

http://www.reflectionsonjanemorris.com/

Janey's dress and Topsy's tub chair


The dress went back to the William Morris Gallery ...

from

with thanks

https://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Morris/118891181479937

Water Willow




Water Willow-Study of female head and shoulders, 1871, chalk on paper, 27,3 x 33,9 cm, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Water Willow, 1871, Oil on canvas, 33 x 26,7 cm, Delaware Art Museum

Friday, February 1, 2013

Head Study


Jane Morris - Head Study, 1863 - 1864

This study of Jane Morris, wife of Burne-Jones's best friend and colleague, William Morris, may have been a study for 'Green Summer', a watercolour of 1864 (Private Collection) where she appears seated amongst a group of girls.

Red chalk over pencil