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The Rose

Oil Painting
1832 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is typical of Parris's 'fancy' portraits, which were intended for reproduction in the form of a coloured lithograph as an illustration to verse. The Rose was published as The Rose of the Boudoir, with the short, anonymous, poem:
The Rose she loves the Mother blesses
The Rose she to her bosom presses
A fairer, sweeter, happier thing
Than that which shines the Queen of Spring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • The Rose (assigned by artist)
  • A Group of women and a child (generic title)
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Brief description
The Rose - a group of female figures , oil on canvas, Edmund Thomas Parris, 1832
Physical description
This is typical of Parris's 'fancy' portraits, which were intended for reproduction in the form of a coloured lithograph as an illustration to verse. The Rose was published as The Rose of the Boudoir, with the short, anonymous, poem:
The Rose she loves the Mother blesses
The Rose she to her bosom presses
A fairer, sweeter, happier thing
Than that which shines the Queen of Spring.
Dimensions
  • Estimate diameter: 47.2cm
  • Framed diameter: 73.5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'E T/PARRIS/pinxt./1832' (Signed and dated by the artist, centre left)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Elizabeth South
Object history
Given by Mrs Elizabeth South, 1908
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 224
Collection
Accession number
57-1908

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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