Elizabeth Siddal: 'I Wake Again'
Date2020
Artist
Holly Trostle Brigham
(American artist, born 1965)
MediumPainted and velvet lined wooden box with metal hinges; leather book with lithography, screen print, hair, and hand dyed paper; dried pigment in apothecary bottle and book pages8
Dimensions10 1/4 × 13 × 3 1/4 in. (26 × 33 × 8.3 cm)
each (book): 9 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (23.2 × 22.2 cm)
each (bottle): 5 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (14.9 × 4.4 cm)
each (book): 9 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (23.2 × 22.2 cm)
each (bottle): 5 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (14.9 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 2022
Object number2022-28
On View
Not on viewClassificationsBOOK
Label TextThe artist’s book is encased in a box decorated with paintings of the four seasons. Siddal often addressed the seasons, a popular subject in the history of art, in her poetry. Her monogram appears at the center. A page from a collection of Tennyson poems is pasted on the inside cover. The book is nestled within, accompanied by a period glass apothecary bottle filled with pigment. The box pays homage to the jewel box Siddal decorated for Jane Morris.
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