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| The Rose Edmond Thomas Parris, 1832 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Painted in England in 1832 by Edmond Thomas Parris, this delicate genre painting was just the sort of fashionable, gentle scene which was highly regarded at the time. This canvas is typical of Parris's so-called “fancy” portraits. These he created with the intention of having them reproduced in the form of a colored lithograph as an illustration to a verse.
This painting—“The Rose”--was published as “The Rose of the Boudoir,” with the short, anonymous, poem:
The Rose she loves the Mother blesses
The Rose she to her bosom presses
A fairer, sweeter, happier thing
Than that which shines the Queen of Spring.
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