Portraits of Jane Morris (1839-1914)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and J. R. Parsons
From an album of photographs posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1863
Photographs: albumen-silver prints from wet collodion negatives

In 1863 Rossetti invited the professional London photographer J. R. Parsons to take photographs of Jane Morris in his garden at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. The compositions were arranged by Rossetti himself. George Bottomley, who assembled this album, wrote that 'these prints are in essence original compositions by Rossetti and the proportion of the figure to the space is an important part of his intention.' (letter to Jane’s daughter, May Morris, 1 December 1933)
V&A 1738 & 1741-1939