"Sleeping Children" by Chantrey Lichfield Cath
Category
Photographs
Date
1870
Materials
Photograph paper
Measurements
151 x 201 mm
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1291888.26
Summary
Monochrome photographic print. Vignette image of "The Sleeping Children" by Sir Francis Chantrey (1781-1841). 1816, a marble memorial in the South Choir Aisle of Lichfield Cathedral. The work commemorates the lives of Ellen-Jane and Marianne Robinson. Their recently widowed mother commissioned this memorial when her elder daughter was fatally burned after her nightdress caught fire and not long afterwards, the younger girl fell ill and died.
Marks and inscriptions
Below photograph on album page: "Sleeping Children" by Chantrey Lichfield Cath