# mahsaamini studysaturdays

Kate Greenway’s illustrations for this

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was an artist and writer. At 12 she enrolled at the Finsbury School of Art, followed by the National Art Training School in South Kensington from 1865, and attended the Slade School.

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2023-04-02

Nocturnal happenings for this drawings by Simeon Solomon. These artworks represent non-biblical, subjects after dark, and were all created in the mid 1850s. ‘The Haunted House’ and ‘Christabel’ illustrate poems by Thomas Hood and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. …

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2023-03-11

This we are serenaded you with a sacred song in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘A Christmas Carol’, 1867, and it’s preliminary sketches. The second is a more finished chalk drawing and the third an earlier pencil drawing focussed on the positioning of the female figure.

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2022-12-17

So big is this sketch by Edward Burne-Jones, nearly 5 feet high, it’s divided here into two images, It is a watercolour design for a stained glass window panel in , in his hometown.

‘The Nativity’,watercolour, heightened with gold, .

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2022-11-26

For this we have a sketch of ‘Ophelia’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A popular subject with the Pre-Raphaelite artists, Rossetti depicts Ophelia weaving garlands of flowers prior to her suicide by drowning, after the cruelty she faced at the hands of Hamlet.

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2022-11-05

This weekends posts will be focused around hair, in solidarity with the women of Iran, and the incredibly brutal threats they face. Rest in peace Mahsa Amini.

For this is Rossetti’s preparatory sketch for a painting, ‘Lady Lilith’.

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2022-09-24

For is Queer and Jewish icon Simeon Solomon’s sketch ‘Night and Her Child Sleep’. A theme Solomon returned to in his drawings, the androgynous beauty, closeness of the figures and the robe that embraces them, forms an artwork full of maternal love and devotion.

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2022-09-10

“O roses, June roses! From yonder beds of bloom
Is wafted toward me your subtle faint perfume,”

‘June Roses’, Alice Williams Brotherton.

To celebrate the start of June and the blooming of roses, for this are two oil sketches by John William Waterhouse.

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2022-06-04

For is this Simeon Solomon drawing which shows his passion for depicting beautiful, androgynous male figures.

Solomon faced persecution and imprisonment for his sexuality, but continued to create beautiful art for the rest of his life.

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2022-04-23

With the dawning of 9th April, for we commemorate the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti who died on this day in 1882. These are drawings he made for ‘The Death of Lady Macbeth’. They are in the collections at and .

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2022-04-09

Studies, artists preliminary sketches, are fascinating for discovering an artist's process. Such beautiful pieces of art in their own right, we are dedicating Saturdays as
Our first is this oil sketch by Edward Burne-Jones, from the Briar Rose series, .

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2022-02-26