The Torchbearer
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
143 mm (H)75 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872961
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); a figure in a wide dress in antique Grecian style, seen in profile looking left, holding a large burning torch in front of her body.
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