Study of hands and drapery

Details

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919)
Study of hands and drapery
inscribed 'ANGELICA' (lower left)
pencil
9½ x 6¾ in. (24 x 17 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The drawing was evidently modelled by Murray's Italian wife, Angelica. Born Angelica Colivicchi, she was a country girl from Volterra whom Murray met in Pisa in July 1873 and married there two years later. For details of the marriage, see David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite, Lewes, 2000.

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