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Thomas Woolner’s Wordsworth Memorial, 1851: Pre-Raphaelite sources and slips

06/2009 | 1275 | 151

Pages: 382-387

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Author:

Neale, Anne (Neale, Anne)

Subjects

artists:

Woolner, Thomas

artists:

Humphreys, Henry Noel

dates:

1850-1859

places:

Grasmere / England

print:

Woolner, Thomas

print:

Wordsworth, William

subjects:

British sculpture / Wordsworth, William / Memorials / Marbles / Reliefs / Portraits / Pre-Raphaelite / Commissions / Illuminations / Published illustrations / Flowers

Illustrations

Attributed works:

28. Detail of the Wordsworth Memorial, by Thomas Woolner. 1851. Marble 44 by 78 cm. (St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere, Cumbria). The floriated panels depict daffodils and violets on the left, and celandines and snowdrops on the right.

Attributed works:

29. William Wordsworth, by Francis Chantrey. 1820. Marble, 51 cm. high. (Wordsworth Collection, Lilly Library, University of Indiana).

Attributed works:

30. Three borders and a sample page from the Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845, by Henry Noel Humphreys, after the Hours of Anne of Brittany, late fifteenth century. Chromolithographed by Owen Jones.

Attributed works:

31. Modified detail of the Wordsworth Memorial, by Thomas Woolner, with floriated panels from the Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary of 1845 superimposed.

Western art unattributed:

32. Lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria). From J.G. Sturm: Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, Stuttgart 1796, pl.59.

Western art unattributed:

33. Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus). From O.W. Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Gera 1885, pl.262.

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