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Stonehenge — women artists

VenerableBottyBurp Jun 1, 2005 12:03:12

The Wiltshire Heritage Museum have just bought a mid-nineteenth century watercolour of Stonehenge painted by a woman, one Sophia Lydia Wright of Mapperley Nottingham, and as natural history was deemed more "acceptable" for women to take an interest in at that tiime I wondered if a woman drawing or painting a prehistoric monument was rare ?

Anyone know of any other women who sketched or made notes of a prehistoric monument prior to c 1860 ?

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Kammer Jun 1, 2005 13:07:56

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Any artistic ancestors in your family Jane?

Littlestone Jun 1, 2005 16:11:37

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Sounds interesting VBB, any chance of posting a photo of the painting on TMA?

Sorry I cant help with your question but maybe an enquiry to the British Library or Tate Britain would throw up some answers. Coincidentally, BBC1 are beginning a new series on Sunday, 5 June at 9pm entitled A Picture of Britain in which, "David Dimbleby reveals how the British countryside has inspired artists and writers." One of the paintings he will be looking at is Stonehenge by John Constable. Running in parallel with the series is A Digital Picture of Britain on BBC4 where viewers can learn more about digital photography and submit their digital images - the best ones being displayed in the Museum of Photography in Bradford.*

Given the standard of photographs on TMA I would think a lot of them stand a good chance of being up there with the best :-)

* More info at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/