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Date: 1980s
Artist: Noel Rooke
Curator: Justin Howes Collection (1963-2005)
Dimensions:
150 × 100 mm (15 × 10 cm)
Medium: colour photograph
Object number: PH.2019.138.M.1-50
DescriptionColour photos of Noel Rooke’s paintings in Celia Rooke’s collection, memorial scroll given to NR on his retirement from the Central School in 1947, shots of interior and furniture in Celia Rooke’s house:
.1 5 paintings set up: seated female with embroidery frame, garden with female figure in distance, medieval town scene, bunched up female nude, church interior
.2 Seated bunched up female nude (Celia Rooke)
.3 Detail of painting of medieval town scene with three women and baby
.4 Detail of painting of medieval town scene
.5 Garden with female figure in distance
.6 Church interior on easel
.7 Young man (self portrait) holding sheet of paper, detail of young man’s head
.8 Man wearing hat
.9 Woman in coat with fur collar and turban
.10 Woman full-length on couch
.11Head & shoulders of woman in evening dress
.12 Head of older woman in hat seen from the side
.13 Head of older woman in hat seen ¾
.14 Head of girl in large hat
.15 Head of young women in hat with green ribbon
.16 Seated female nude
.17 Yellow iris
.18 Tree on river bank
.19 Trees on river bank
.20 Mountain
.21 Mountains around lake
.22 TMR sketching in church
.23 Detail of TMR sketching in church
.24 House interior
.25 Church interior
.26 Street with church at end
.27 Architectural details of Romanesque building
.28 Iron bridge over river
.29 Architectural detail
.30 Engraving tool
.31 Illuminated manuscript page
.32 Illuminated manuscript page & detail
.33 Detail of illuminated initial

For following photos see Celia Rooke in MIS.2019.137.M.32:
.34 Memorial scroll to Noel Rooke
.35 Signatures on memorial scroll
.36 William Morris settee
.37 William Morris chair
.38 William Morris (probably Philip Webb) cabinet
.39 William Morris chairs
.40 William Morris dining table & chairs (probably by Philip Webb) by piano
.41 Detail of chair leg
.42 ceramics on mantelpiece
.43 baby chair given by the Burne-Jones family when Noel was a baby

suggested images for book:
.44 black & white photo of Noel Rooke in c.1940 – “probably not to be included”
.45 12 watercolour mountain scenes – “select one or two mountain watercolours”
.46 7 drawings of elderly Jewish men – “portfolio of about 50 drawings, include say 2, select say 4, ?tie one in with the wood engraving”
.47 2 black & white watercolours – “there are more of these early drawings where he where is copying from the masters in museums, one is needed, these two from a sketchbook”
.48 3 oil paintings – “incl two oil paintings”:
Seated bunched up female nude (Celia Rooke)
Medieval town scene with 3 women and baby
Monastery on top of mountain
.49 Mountain scene – “watercolour by NR framed”
.50 TMR watercolour of Bedford Park
Pen & ink drawing of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey
Print of ‘munitioners’
Margaret Rooke with embroidery frame