罗马教堂门口的乞丐，摘自《伦敦新闻画报》 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	罗马教堂门口的乞丐，摘自《伦敦新闻画报》
品名（英）	Beggars at a Church Door at Rome, from "Illustrated London News"
入馆年号	2018年，2018.614.6
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	William Luson Thomas【1830 至 1900】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1859
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 11 13/16 × 9 5/16 英寸 (30 × 23.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	伊丽莎白·默里是一位画家和作家，艺术家托马斯·希菲（1775-1835）的女儿。她将成为伦敦女性艺术家协会的创始成员，以及国家水彩协会和水彩画家协会的成员。受阿德莱德女王（威廉四世的妻子）委托绘制马耳他的画作，伊丽莎白于 1835 年十九岁时离开伦敦，前往直布罗陀和丹吉尔。在后一个城市，1845年与英国领事亨利·约翰·默里结婚。与摩尔妇女的友谊为她提供了1859年出版的一本名为《摩洛哥，西班牙和加那利群岛艺术家十六年生活》的书。1860年，默里一家横渡大西洋，在缅因州波特兰担任外交职务。在美国一直待到1875年。在此期间，伊丽莎白在东海岸建立了艺术联系，并加入了纽约的美国水彩画家协会。现在的木版画再现了她启程前往美国之前创作的水彩画，这是几幅致力于罗马人物的水彩画之一。
介绍（英）	Elizabeth Murray was a painter and writer, daughter of the artist Thomas Heaphy (1775-1835). She would become a founding member of the Society of Female Artists, London, and a member of the National Watercolour Society, and Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Commissioned by Queen Adelaide (the wife of William IV) to make drawings of Malta, Elizabeth left London at nineteen in 1835, traveled on to Gibraltar and Tangiers. In the latter city married the British Consul, Henry John Murray in 1845. Friendships with Moorish women gave her material for a book, published in 1859 titled Sixteen Years of an Artist's Life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary Islands. In 1860 the Murrays crossed the Atlantic to take up a diplomatic post in Portland, Maine. staying in the United States until 1875. During this period, Elizabeth established artistic contacts along the Eastern seaboard and joined the American Society of Water Color Painters in New York. The present wood engraving reproduces a watercolor she made before her departure for America, one of a several devoted to Roman characters.