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Mrs William Morris posed by Rossetti, 1865

Photograph
1865 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

19thC; Anon, Mrs William Morris posed by Rossetti, 1865

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleMrs William Morris posed by Rossetti, 1865 (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass negative
Brief description
19thC; Anon, Mrs William Morris posed by Rossetti, 1865
Dimensions
  • Photograph height: 222mm
  • Photograph width: 161mm
  • Album closed height: 335mm (Closed) (Note: Measure in Book Conservation measuring box)
  • Album closed width: 261mm (closed) (Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
  • Album closed depth: 55mm (Closed) (Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
Style
Object history
Dr Robert Steele presented to the V&A (in 1939) the album bound in Morris fabric and containing the original 19th century albumen prints, then (in 1942) the modern prints made from the original negatives, which then belonged to the granddaughter of William Michael Rossetti.
Subject depicted
Associated object
819-1942 (Copy)
Bibliographic reference
Robert Hoozee, ed. British Vision. Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950 / with contributions from Mark Evans, Mark Haworth-Booth and Stephen Calloway. Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Mercatorfonds, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 6153 749 6
Collection
Accession number
1737-1939

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2009
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