The education of the Virgin
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
238 x 223 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434390
Summary
Pen and brown ink and wash, with some water-colour, on paper, The education of the Virgin by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891). In left foreground a young woman seated, with her back directed to the front left corner her legs travel across foreground to centre. Above the point where her feet end, the feet of an old woman begin. The old woman sits right of centre, on a box placed on the platform, her legs are crossed and in her nearest arm (left) she holds a spindle. Between them on the platform is a basket. The background is a wall, with a carving of what appears to be a coach drawn by horses. Related Works Comment - If correctly surmised, the subject for this preliminary sketch may have been influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin,1848-49. Date - possibly early 1850s.
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist