PORTRAITS OF WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS
CIRCLE
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- William Morris
- Morris & Co.
- Members of the Morris
circle
William
Morris
- Pencil self-portrait
by Morris [ca. 1855]
- Photograph
(1857), apparently the earliest known photograph
- The
Discovery, pen and ink caricature by D. G. Rossetti
(1858) [Princeton University Library]
- Photograph by
Frederick Hollyer (1874) taken in the garden of The
Grange, Burne-Jones's house in Fulham
- Carte-de-visite
photograph [ca. 1875] [International
Institute for Social History]
- Frontispiece to
Living English Poets (1881), caricature by
Walter Crane depicting Morris, Swinburne, Browning, and
Tennyson [Mark Samuels Lasner collection]
- Wood-engraving after
charcoal drawing by Lisa Stillman [ca.
1881]
- Photograph of
Hammersmith Socialist Society [possibly
1885], Morris standing in second row [Mark
Samuels Lasner collection]
- Dante Gabriel
Rossetti in his Back Garden, caricature by Max
Beerbohm (1904), depicting Morris with D. G. Rossetti,
Burne-Jones, Ruskin, Meredith, Swinburne, Hall Caine,
Holman Hunt, William Bell Scott, various animals, and one
of Rossetti's models [Max Beerbohm, The Poets'
Corner]
- Ned [Burne-Jones]
and Topsy [William Morris] settled in the settle
at Red Lion Square, caricature by Max Beerbohm
[1917-18] [Max Beerbohm, Rossetti and his
Circle]
- Additional
photographs in the collection of the William Morris
Gallery
Morris
& Co.
Members
of the Morris circle
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Poet, diplomat, anti-Imperialist, breeder of Arabian horses,
and lover of Jane Morris
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, disciple of Morris and
Ruskin, collector, later Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge
Jane Burden Morris
Morris's wife, embroiderer, lover of D. G. Rossetti and
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Charles Fairfax Murray
Artist, collector, assistant to D. G. Rossetti, Burne-Jones,
and Morris
Christina G. Rossetti
Poet and fiction writer
- Photograph by Lewis
Carroll [C. L. Dodgson] (7 October 1863),
with her brothers, WILLIAM MICHAEL
ROSSETTI and DANTE GABRIEL
ROSSETTI, and her mother, MARIA
ROSSETTI [Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art
World in Photographs]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet, lover of Jane Morris,
original partner in Morris & Co.
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS
above
William Michael Rossetti
Art critic, editor of Shelley and The Germ, civil
servant, and memoirist
- Photograph by Lewis
Carroll [C. L. Dodgson] (7 October 1863),
with his sister, CHRISTINA
ROSSETTI, his brother, DANTE
GABRIEL ROSSETTI, and his mother,
MARIA ROSSETTI [Jeremy Maas,
The Victorian Art World in Photographs]
John Ruskin
Art critic, artist, and social thinker, major influence on
Morris
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS
above
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Artist, poet, wife of D. G. Rossetti
Simeon Solomon
Painter and writer
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet and critic
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS
above
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet laureate of England
- Tennyson Reading
"Maud," drawing by D. G. Rossetti (27 September 1855)
[Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library]
Philip Webb
Architect, designer, partner in Morris & Co.
Marie Zambaco (née Casavetti)
Scultptor, model, Burne-Jones's muse and lover
- Photograph (1866)
[from Eileen Casavetti, "The Fateful Meeting, the
Fruitful Passion," Antique Collector, March
1989]
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