The Woman with the Lyre
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
210 mm (H)156 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872972
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); in an oval picture frame given by a single line; a woman in antique Grecian dress that leaves bare her right shoulder and arm, seen in profile looking to the right, standing next to a column and playing a lyre.
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
left to the figure, in Grecian letters; 'ONESAS[?]/ EPOIEI'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist