The Three Angels
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Tracing paper, watercolour paint and gouache
Measurements
209 mm (H)204 mm (H)150 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872614
Summary
Watercolour and gold and white gouache on tracing paper, The Three Angels by Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908). Oval. Painted by a red frame; three girls in antique style white dresses (tunica) standing around a big column in the centre of the picture, all with an halo and holding a flower in their hands; in the background a blue-greenish landscape and sky; the girl in the middle, with a red shoulder cape, her right hand raised, with her left gently pointing to her left; the other two wearing a brownish cap over their shoulders; the one on the left side of picture looking around the column to the one in the middle, the third with one hand holding the coat, the other taken up to her shoulder looking to her left into the sky; leaves a small tree behind the column centre top.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley
Marks and inscriptions
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Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist