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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

Technique

painted
gilded
carved

Dimensions

height (frame): 144cm
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.