Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This exhibition was held at the Walker Art Gallery in 2003/4.
Pencil on paper, dated 1861, 27 x 25.7cm, The Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor)
In the watercolour version of the Nativity, the Virgin Mary resembles Elizabeth Siddal, who died in 1861. Ruth Herbert was the first model for the Virgin in the oil, but then Rossetti substituted the face of Jane Morris, wife of his friend William Morris.