The Woman with the Child
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
258 mm (H)257 mm (H)170 mm (W)164 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872970
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); a standing woman dressed with a drapped, wrinkled veil that leaves bare her breast and her left arm, almost frontal view, the head turned, looking to the left, holding with her bare left arm the back of a small girl in rear view that is approaching and lifting the dress from her right leg; soft forms like clouds, maybe also; rocks on the ground.
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