Janey Morris around 1881

a hitherto unpublished portrait photo of Jane Morris lurks in the collections of the University of California at Berkeley

thanks to Frank Sharp for finding this 

Taken by the Mayall firm, it dates from the 1880s when Edwin Mayall ran the London studio in New Bond St.

It was given to Annie Cobden, presumably around the time Janey accompanied Annie, her sister Jane Cobden and Annie's husband James Sanderson on a trip to Tuscany in 1881.  

Before meeting up with the Cobden sisters, Janey stayed with Rosalind and George Howard on the  Ligurian coast at Bordighera, describing her 'surroundings here [as] most beautiful, olives, lemons, oranges everywhere, blue mountains - blue sea, and such sunsets!' 

While the Howards were back in Britain for a sudden general election, Janey helped their eldest daughter Mary manage the house and younger children.  Henry James called, reporting on Jane as 'the strange pale livid gaunt silent, and yet in a manner graceful and picturesque, wife of the poet and papermaker', who 'doubtless too has her merits. She has for instance wonderful aesthetic hair.'

A few weeks later Janey was in Florence and then Siena,  when the comical photos inscribed 'Pilgrims of Siena' were taken, showing Jane  slouching to reduce her height so as not to tower over Annie's intended.