Sketch made at the South Kensington Museum to illustrate Wood Carving: Design and Worksmanship

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Date: c. 1890
Object Type: drawing
Material: chalk on paper
Catalogue number: BrD29
Artist: Leighton, Frederick, Lord, 1830, 1896
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1936

Chalk study for Leighton’s oil painting ‘Solitude’, now in Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts collection, Washington. See also BrD29a for another study of the same subject. Solitude was inspired by studies the artist made of the Lynn of Dee near Braemar, Scotland. He described the spot to his sister as a location where “the vehemence of winter has scooped and worn pools so deep that . . . you come at last to absolute dark brown night . . . no sound, no faintest gurgle even reaches your ear; the silent mystery of it all absolutely invades and possesses you; that is what I vainly tried to put into my Solitude.”

A more worked up version of this drawing appeared in: Spielmann., M. H. “Current Art. Royal Academy, — I.” Magazine of Art (1890). London: Cassell and Company. Pp. 217-21.

Details

Date: c. 1890
Object Type: drawing
Material: chalk on paper
Catalogue number: BrD29a
Artist: Leighton, Frederick, Lord, 1830, 1896
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1936

Chalk study for Leighton’s oil painting ‘Solitude’, now in Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts collection, Washington. See also BrD29 for another study of the same subject. Solitude was inspired by studies the artist made of the Lynn of Dee near Braemar, Scotland. He described the spot to his sister as a location where “the vehemence of winter has scooped and worn pools so deep that . . . you come at last to absolute dark brown night . . . no sound, no faintest gurgle even reaches your ear; the silent mystery of it all absolutely invades and possesses you; that is what I vainly tried to put into my Solitude.”

This drawing was reproduced in: Spielmann., M. H. “Current Art. Royal Academy, — I.” Magazine of Art (1890). London: Cassell and Company. Pp. 217-21.

Details

Date: 02.07.1870
Dimensions: 34.1 x 50.5
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D183
Sitter: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Artist: Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828 | 1882

This intimate portrait of Jane Morris, William Morris’s wife, was drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti was a key associate of William Morris and a founding member of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. when it was established in 1861. When he drew this work in 1870 he was involved in an intense emotional relationship with Jane Morris, which complicated his work with the Firm. In 1875 Morris restructured the Firm as Morris & Co., buying out the original partners including Rossetti.

Object Type: drawing

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