Jane Morris: Study for 'Mariana', 1868, Red, brown, off-white and black chalks on tan paper; four sheets butt-joined (and slightly tented), sheet: 35 3/4 x 30 3/4 in. (90.8 x 78.1 cm), Drawings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea), Long attracted by Jane Burden Morris’s unconventional beauty, Rossetti placed her at the center of this sheet, which he began as a head study, then developed to represent Mariana from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Tennyson’s poem Mariana in the Moated Grange
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Jane Morris, Study, Mariana, 1868, Red, brown, off-white, black chalks, tan paper, four sheets butt-joined, slightly tented, sheet, 35 3/4 x 30 3/4, 90.8 78.1 cm, Drawings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British, London, 1828–1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Long attracted, Burden, Morris, unconventional, beauty, Rossetti placed, center, head study, developed, represent Mariana, Shakespeare, Measure, Tennyson, poem, Moated Grange
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