Virgilia Chew as Anne Pedersdotter
Věra Prášilova, Virgilia Chew as Anne Pedersdotter, 1934, gelatin silver print, Gift of Nadja S. Lilly, Dascha S. Tursi, and K.S. Voeller, M.D., © Estate of Věra Prášilova Scott, 2000.91.23
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- Title
Virgilia Chew as Anne Pedersdotter
- Related Titles
display title: Virgilia Chew
- Artist
- Date
1934
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 9 3/8 in x 9 7/8 in; sheet: 10 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Nadja S. Lilly, Dascha S. Tursi, and K.S. Voeller, M.D.
- Accession Number
2000.91.23
- Copyright
© Estate of Věra Prášilova Scott
- Terms
In this dramatic portrait, Houston-born actress Virgilia Chew is likely reenacting a scene from the 1908 play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen. Pedersdotter, the wife of a Lutheran minister, was convicted of witchcraft and burned alive in Bergen, Norway, on April 7, 1590. A popular dramatic subject, Pedersdotter's fate was also the subject Ottorino Respighi's 1934 opera La Fiamma (The Flame) and Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 film Vredens Dag (Day of Wrath).
- Exhibitions
2015 Classically Modern: The Portraiture of Věra Prášilova Scott Portland Art Museum
