Woman with oil lamp
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
178 x 250 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434403
Summary
Pen and Ink on thick cream paper, Woman with oil lamp by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891). A woman, full-length in profile turned to her left, in her right hand she holds a lamp aloft, under her left arm she holds a bucket. She wears a long, tiered, Grecian robe. A small pencil sketch of the same subject occurs below right. Figure faces same direction, though turned a little more to the front. This figure holds the lamp in her other hand, which is not as attractive a pose. Literary Reference - Apparently taken from Santa Filomena in the sequence Birds of Passage, from the volume The Seaside and the Fireside, by Henry Longfellow, published in 1849A lady with a lamp shallstand In the great history of the land A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood Related Catalogue No 1 - 1659 Date - 1854-55.
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist