Thursday, August 20, 2009

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Jane Burden, aged 18 (detail)


1858
pen, ink and pencil and wash with white highlights
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
(Morris married Jane the next year)

2 comments:

Ruthie Redden said...

i so admire the way the hair has been done in this sketch!!

Hermes said...

The PRB definately had a thing about hair.

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2009/07/cult-of-red-hair-kylie-martin.html