About this objectFra Lippo Lippi was a fifteenth-century Florentine painter. He was the subject of an 1855 poem by Robert Browning, from which the inscription in the top of this work was taken. The poem grapples with whether artists should depict the world realistically, or whether it should be idealistic and instructive: a debate at the heart of why the Pre-Raphaelite’s criticised the Royal Academy. With its staggering attention to detail, most notably in the white rose that Lippo Lippi holds, this work argues for the former.
MakerHughes, Edward Robert (1851-1914)
Maker Roledraughtsman
Date Made1893
Period19th century
Medium and Materialsmedium: crayon/red
Style and IconographyPortrait
Style and IconographyPre-Raphaelite
Inscription and Marks1. "All The Latin I Construe is, "Amo" I Love!"2. E.R. Hughes 1893
Method: written crayon
Position: 1. top right 2. bottom left
