During the summer of 1865, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti invite the photographer John Robert Parsons 1862-1909 in his London home in Cheyne Walk to make a memorable series of pictures of his favorite model, Jane, wife of William Morris, whose strange beauty it was obvious to eight years earlier when the eighteen-senior years, the groom's daughter stood on the spot where he executed frescoes for the Oxford Union Society.
While the photographer performed the technical part of the shooting, he asks each portraying gestures, looks, backgrounds, hair, jewelry, costume-a blue silk dress without a corset, typical of the Aesthetic fashion, crafted by Jane herself well - everything was carefully composed with the active collaboration of the model for future paintings.
Albumen print from a collodion-on-glass-negative