Oil painting
Mrs William Morris Wearing a Blue Silk Dress
The Blue Silk Dress
Object number
KM091
Artist/Designer/Maker
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Artist
Production date
1868
Production place
England
Material
Oil paint
canvas (paint canvas)
wood
canvas (paint canvas)
wood
Technique
painted
gilded
carved
gilded
carved
Dimensions
height (frame): 144cm
width (frame): 122cm
depth (frame): 9.5cm
height (sight size): 101.5cm
width (sight size): 90.2cm
width (frame): 122cm
depth (frame): 9.5cm
height (sight size): 101.5cm
width (sight size): 90.2cm
Location
Kelmscott Manor - (on display)
Content description
Jane Morris sits at a table with her hands folded beneath her chin, a pink carnation is at her waist. On the table are a vase of white flowers and an open book, with a second pink carnation on the open page. A Latin couplet runs across the top of the painting which translates as 'Famed by her poet husband and of surpassing fame for her beauty, now let her win lasting fame by my painting.'
Inscriptions
Inscription content
JANE MORRIS AD 1868 DG Rossetti pinxit. Conjuge clara poetâ, et præclarissima vultu, Denique picturâ clara sit illa meâ!
Inscriber
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Inscriber role/association
Artist
Inscription date
1868
Portrait of Jane Morris wearing a blue silk dress by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Oil on canvas, gilt frame designed by the artist. 1868.