Group including Jane Morris (née Burden), May Morris and Jane Alice ('Jenny') Morris Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Group including Jane Morris (née Burden), May Morris and Jane Alice ('Jenny') Morris NPG x76490
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Unknown photographer
In 1857, Burden was spotted by artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones in Oxford, and was sought by them as a model. She sat initially for Rossetti and then for William Morris. The two became engaged and married in 1859. Burden was privately educated and recreated herself from the daughter of a stablehand into a lady. She was an accomplished embroiderer and worked with her husband in their furnishings business, embroidering items that he designed. In the late 1860s, Jane began... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










