LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor, bodycolor and gum arabic on paper

Measurements:

37.99 in. (96.50 cm.) (height) by 60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials (lower left), and signed again 'Edward. Burne. Jones' (on the backboard), with typed inscription 'This Picture, being painted in WATER/color, would be injured by the slight-/est moisture./Great care must be used whenever/it is removed from the Frame.' and signed again 'Edward Burne-Jones' (on a label attached to the reverse of the frame)

Condition:

extended along the lower edge; original frame

Exhibited:

London, Dudley Gallery, General Exhibition of Water color Drawings: The Ninth, 1873, no. 179. Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878, British Section, Works of Art, Class II, Water colors, no. 84. Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Inaugural Art Exhibition, 1885-6, no. 98. Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 1303. London, Corporation Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures, 1892, no. 166. London, New Gallery, The Works of Edward Burne-Jones, 1892-3, no. 42.

Literature:

Burne-Jones's autograph work-record (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), under 1870, 1872, 1873 and 1893. Athenaeum, no. 2363, 8 February 1873, p. 186. Times, 18 March 1873, p. 4. Academy, vol. IV, no. 70, 15 April 1873, p. 146. Art Journal, 1873, p. 87. Julia Cartwright, 'The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart,' Art Annual, 1894, p. 15, illustrated p. 13. Malcolm Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, 4th edition, London, 1898, pp. 42, 49-50, 68, 130. Otto von Schleinitz, Burne-Jones (Kunstler-Monographien IV), Beilefeld and Leipzig, 1901, pp. 83-4, illustrated p. 54, fig. 44. G(eorgiana) B(urne)-J(ones), Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, London, 1904, vol. 2, pp. 30-1, 237-8, 341. Fortunée De Lisle, Burne-Jones, London, 1904, pp. 95-7, 147, 182, illustrated facing p. 96. Percy Bate, The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, 4th edition, London, 1910, pp. 102-3. A.M.W. Stirling, A Painters of Dreams and Other Biographical Studies, London, 1916, p. 336. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke, London, 1917, vol. 2, p. 579. Isabel McAllister, Alfred Gilbert, London, 1929, pp. 145-6. William Rothenstein, Men and Memories, London, 1931, p. 114. Jacques Lethève, 'La connaissance des peintres préraphaélites anglais en France (1855-1900)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6e période, vol. 53, May-June 1959, p. 318. Leonée Ormond, George du Maurier, London, 1969, p. 210. Martin Harrison and Bill Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, pp. 100, 110, 114, 121, 173, 180, 185, illustrated p. 107, fig. 151. Penelope Fitzgerald, Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography, London, 1975, pp. 141-2, 151, 249-50. Mary Lago (ed.), Burne-Jones Talking: His conversations 1895-1898 preserved by his studio assistant Thomas Rooke, London, 1981, p. 181. Gordon S. Haight (ed.), Selections from George Eliot's letters, Yale, 1985, p. 414. John Christian, Christopher Newall and Julian Hartnoll, The Reproductive Engravings after Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, London, 1988, p. 48. John Christian, 'Burne-Jones and Sculpture', Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, exh. Matthiesen Gallery, London, and Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1991-2, cat. pp. 85-6. Christopher Wood, Burne-Jones, London, 1998, pp. 64-5. Stephen Wildman and John Christian, Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, exh. Metropolitan Museum, New York, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1998-9, cat. pp. 27, 32, 38 (note 11), 114, 163, 201. David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite, Lewes, 2000, pp. 24, 177. Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, London, 2011, pp. 243, 245, 416-8, 493.

Provenance:

Bought from the artist by Fredrick Craven of Manchester in 1873. R.E. Tatham of 90 York Street, Portman Square, London, by 1904 (+); Christie's, London, 7 March 1908, lot 55 (1,575 gns to Agnew's). Lady Wantage (?). R.H. Benson (?). Mrs W.M.H. Pollen; Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1958, lot 118 (480 gns to Agnew's).