Vita Sackville-West's Writing-room in the Elizabethan Tower at Sissinghurst Castle
Annie Harris (b. 1945)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1990
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
584 x 546 mm (23 x 21 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Sissinghurst
Order this imageCollection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 803041
Summary
Oil painting on board, Vita Sackville-West's Writing-room in the Elizabethan Tower at Sissinghurst Castle by Annie Harris, inscribed bottom right, almost invisibly, below chair back: Annie Harris; 1990. Vita Sackville West made this her own room from the day she acquired Sissinghurst in 1930. The two larger photographs are of Harold Nicolson and Virginia Woolf. The wall hanging is a 17th century Flemish tapestry.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust's Foundation for Art, 1990
Makers and roles
Annie Harris (b. 1945), artist