Jane Morris

1873

Not on view

In the 1870s Rossetti and Jane Morris, the wife of his friend William Morris, became involved emotionally and are believed to have had an extended affair. In 1871 the two families jointly rented Kelmscott Manor, near Oxford, and Rossetti lived there between 1872 and 1874. In the summers, while Morris travelled to Iceland to study Norse sagas, Jane and their two daughters took up residence at Kelmscott. Rossetti's studies of Jane made during this period have a relaxed domenstic quality, showing her seated and reading or dreaming. Later, the artist used them as a foundation for major symbolic compositions such as "Mariana" (see MMA 47.66).

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Title: Jane Morris
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea)
Sitter: Jane Morris (British, Oxford 1839–1914 Bath)
Date: 1873
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 6 3/4 in. (23 × 17.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Object Number: 2021.16.10
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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