The Holy Family (after Michelangelo)
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
157 mm (H)115 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872670
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing), The Holy Family (after Michelangelo) by Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), 1862. A sitting woman with scissors in her hand, cutting a piece of her dress; a nude standing boy leaning on her left knee, looking at it, another standing boy right of this one; behind the woman and the first boy part of the face of another person, presumably an older woman, wearing a round hat.
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
bottom right; 'Michelangelo'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist