Woman seated at an Embroidery Frame or Easel
1870
Accession number: 1904P355
Pen and brown ink, over pencil with faint indication of a grid, on note paper.
Width: 171 mm
Height: 216 mm
Information
From the artist's notebook. The sitter is possibly Jane Morris who was an accomplished embroiderer.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | - |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Morris exhibition | |||
| - | William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow | 1986-11-01 - 1987-03-01 | |
| The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery in Women's Life 1300-1900 | |||
| 160 | Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester | 1988-05-27 - 1988-08-29 | |
| 160 | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 1988-09-22 - 1988-10-30 | |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby | p. 357. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1971 | Oxford University Press, London | vol. 1, no. 719, p. 228; vol. 2, pl. 496. |
| Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |||
| Andrea Rose | 1977 | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London | no. 3D1. |
Provenance
| William Michael Rossetti, Charles Fairfax Murray |
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