Excerpt from an email Margje Bijl received from the curator of the William
Morris Gallery,
Carien Kremer: 'We would like to offer you a slot in our
2014 programme, showing the
photographs in the Discovery Lounge...It would
be great to mark the commemorative year
with a contemporary take on Jane'.
http://www.reflectionsonjanemorris.com/commemorating-jane-morris/
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
The Seat of a Bishop
This is fascinating, a sketch by Ned that he gave to Jane. Shows both had a sense of humour. Called The Seat of a Bishop; inspired by the Baedeker's Guide to Italy. Ned went to Italy four times (as did Jane). An inscription asks Jane not to show the sketch "to your lady friends because they would think ill of me."
How Rossetti used the Jane photographs
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The painting is Reverie of 1868. The photo was taken in Rossetti's garden in London in July 1865.
Mrs Cimabue Brown
Isn't it odd, never seen this mentioned before. Reading David Rodger's book 'Rossetti' he says that George Du Maurier was no admirer of Jane and based Mrs Cimabue Brown, an ambitious hostess with 'artistic' tastes, on Jane for his cartoons in Punch. He first met Jane in 1870.
"At the height of public interest in the Aesthetic Movement, between the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in London at the end of the 1870s and Oscar Wilde's lecture tour of 1882, Punchran a brilliant series of caricatures by Du Maurier satirising the manners and poses of the Aesthetes."
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
The Blessed Damozel detail
The main model is Alexa (Wilding) but the background lovers are Jane and presumably a younger Rossetti
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