nee Mary Fraser Tytler
[Frederick Hollyer, photograph of painter and writer, Mary Watts, about 1890]
Mary Seton Fraser Tytler (married name Mary Seton Watts) (1849 – 1938) was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer.
1887
by G. F. Watts
[by Herbert Lambert
bromide print on card mount, early 1920s?]
[Two Angels, each with a pair of symbolic images in circles.. Compton Cemetery Chapel Mary Seton Fraser Tytler Watts and citizens of Compton. 1898. Photograph by Jacqueline Banerjee]
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/watts/architecture/9.html
This is interesting especially as I have just finished reading The Children's Book by AS Byatt which has left me a hunger for arts and crafts!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read that, but I think she had real talent.
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