The Birth of Maria, (after Taddeo Gaddi)
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
205 mm (H)265 mm (W)262 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872847
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (historical figure drawing); The Birth of Maria, (after Taddeo Gaddi) by Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908). A small room formed by pillows and a flat roof, with a bed in it on the right side, before the bed a sitting woman, front view, holding up a small child, another woman is coming down to her, kneeled down left to her, stretching out her arms to take over the child; on the left side of picture a woman, given in profile, is coming in carrying a small basket in the right hand and a big low bowl on her head which is being taken over by another woman on ther right side of her; behind the first of those, a third woman looking into the room; on the right an ornamental stripe.
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 left, right of the ornamental stripe; 'Da Taddeo Gaddi/ in Santa Croce'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist Taddeo Gaddi (c.1300 - 1366), painter