Jane Morris in Icelandic Costume
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
c. 1873
Pen and ink on paper
36 x 29 cm.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (on loan from a private Collection)
The Victorians loved dressing up. William Morris had visited Iceland for the second time in 1873, and would probably have brought this costume back for his wife then (see Payne 37). Rossetti was obviously much taken with it, as of course he was with Jane Morris herself.
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