patrickhumphreys:Vanessa Bell’s bedroom at Charleston.Vanessa’s desk is a nineteenth-century Fre
patrickhumphreys: Vanessa Bell’s bedroom at Charleston. Vanessa’s desk is a nineteenth-century French fall-front secretaire. Quentin [Bell] modelled the rather unconvincing terracotta likeness of his sister Angelica which stands on top. Vanessa designed the cover of her writing case; it was worked by Ethel Grant, who also embroidered the spectacle case above it on the desk. Vanessa’s elder son Julian is the subject of the two studies by Vanessa made in 1908 when he was only a few months old. Although the frame containing Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph of Vanessa’s mother Julia Stephen never actually stood there, it seems an appropriate place for her among the closest members of Vanessa’s family. The chair is one of a set of six Venetian chairs owned by Clive [Bell]. —Virginia Nicholson, 1997 Photo by Alen MacWeeney. -- source link
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