The Lily
Oil Painting
1832 (painted)
1832 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Parris had a varied career, beginning as an enameller in a jewellery company, working on panorama painting, restoring the paintings in the dome of St Paul's, designing carpets and tapestry, and illustrating volumes of poetry. These are typical of his '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.
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
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Lily (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on canvas |
| Brief description | The Lily - a group of female figures, oil on canvas, Edmund Thomas Parris, 1832 |
| Physical description | Parris had a varied career, beginning as an enameller in a jewellery company, working on panorama painting, restoring the paintings in the dome of St Paul's, designing carpets and tapestry, and illustrating volumes of poetry. These are typical of his '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. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | '1832/E T PARRIS' (Signed and dated by the artist on plinth, right) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Elizabeth South |
| Object history | Given by Mrs Elizabeth South, 1908 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 224 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 58-1908 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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