The Girl with the Palm Frond
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Ink, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
177 mm (H)111 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872955
Summary
Pen and ink drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); a standing young woman with some leaves in her hair, looking down to the ground left before her, almost frontal view, slightly turned to the left side of the drawing, holding up her long train dress with her left hand - so that a richly decorated under dress is shown - and a palm frond in her right hand.
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
small notes, in pencil on the other side of the tracing paper indicating the colours of the dress; 'blue' and 'red'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist