Design for Advertisement of Morris & Co.

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Date: 1886
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D231
Artist: Solomon, Simeon, 1840, 1905
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Martha Lugg Wooldridge, 1955

This portrait shows the head of a youth, representing Love in sleep. The portrait recalls Simeon Solomon’s mystical prose piece called Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep which he published privately in 1871. The narrative, which was of central importance to the artist’s career, was based on the platonic theme of the fulfillment of the soul through earthly love.

Material: pencil on paper

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