| Object Number: | D_EDM_0342 | |
| Date: | - | |
| Category: | Drawings, Paper, and Watercolour | |
| Material: | Paper | |
| Inscriptions: | Label inside frame back board: W.A. Smith (Late J. Green) Carver and Gilder, And Establishment for Packing Fine Arts, 14 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, London W. |
Evelyn De Morgan travelled to Italy on numerous occasions from the early 1870s until 1914. Whilst there she visited the Academia and the Uffizi to study the work of the great Masters. This watercolour drawing of Botticelli’s ‘Madonna of the Magnificat” was one of a series of paintings by artists such as Botticelli and Leonardo Da Vinci which Evelyn copied for the purposes of her own enjoyment and elucidation. In the 1870s it was Botticelli’s most celebrated painting.