#mary lizzie macomber

[lepetitdragonvert]

Night and her Daughter Sleep

1902

Artist : Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861-1916)

[myteaplace]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep (detail), 1902, Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861-1916)

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Mary Lizzie Macomber - Faith, Hope and Love, 1900.

[random-brushstrokes]

Mary Lizzie Macomber (American, 1861 - 1916) - Demurer

[jnjo]

Mary L. Macomber, Night and Her Daughter Sleep, 1902

[thelastofthebookworms]

Polls in the same series :

- Pre-raphaelite male artists

- Pre-raphaelite models (there's some overlap with this poll)

[servus-jesu]

Mary Lizzie Macomber - Night and Her Daughter Sleep

[roseblood-daughter]

"Spirit of Easter" by Mary Lizzie Macomber

[wakemewitch]

We’re No Angels: Women and allegory in the art of Mary Lizzie Macomber

[lighthousenora]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep

By Mary Lizzie Macomber, 1902

[helmikoski]

I've read some articles about Mary Lizzie Macomber and I'm just in love with her art, and it's such a pity that most of her paintings was lost during the fire. The ones that were saved are so wonderful.

Just look at this🌙

[simena]

Mary Lizzie Macomber

[warblingandwriting]

Ah! wherefore all this wormy circumstance? Why linger at the yawning tomb so long? O for the gentleness of old Romance, The simple plaining of a minstrel's song! Fair reader, at the old tale take a glance, For here, in truth, it doth not well belong To speak:—O turn thee to the very tale, And taste the music of that vision pale.

Isabella or, The Pot of Basil, John Keats, 1819.

This is a painting made to go with this poem, but another artist associated with the pre-raphaelite movement, Mary Lizzie Macomber.

The portion of the poem above, which I think is very affecting, describes Isabella looking into her lover's grave, and imploring the reader not to do the same. The painting represents the later part in the story where the Isabella brings her lover's corpse home from his unmarked grave, and re-buries in a basil pot, which she weeps over until it sprouts luscious basil. Much of Macomber's work was lost in a fire in 1903, but this painting is dated 1908.

I included them together because they are both adaptations in a way, from a much earlier story in The Decameron, and I find them both quite beautiful.

[amdd1990]

Artist: Mary Lizzie Macomber (Detail).

[jocelyn-stark]

An Instrument of Many Strings,1897. Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861–1916)

[armedhistorian]

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

-Sophocles.

Art: Night and Her Daughter Sleep. (1902)

Artist: Mary Lizzie Macomber. (1861-1916)