Unearthing a Photograph, help wanted

Featured in the Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, Summer 2024 issue is my research into a photograph of Jane Morris by Herbert Watkins I rediscovered in the St Bride Library. It was mistaken for another, well known version. Together with another renctly digitised version these three different versions are now published together for the first time. They are from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the William Morris Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.The museums involved mention different dates (1858- 1860) and I have joined this community hoping to learn more about the details of this photography session (and any other photograph made of Jane Burden Morris).


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