Woman by water (Opehlia?)
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
242 x 122 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434410
Summary
Watercolour over pencil on ivory paper, Woman by water (Opehlia?) by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891). A woman by a stream, reclining onto her right elbow. She raises her left arm towards the leaves of a tree just above her head. Head to foot she lies left to right across the page. The background is a mud bank, in the distance are blue mountains and white sky. Back - pencil sketch of the upper body of a woman semi-reclining on a bed, or possibly tomb. Above her head is an archway
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist