Edward Coley Burne-Jones

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1833-1898

"A quivering tongue of lightning flashed": Illustration for "The Fata Morgana" (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

London, 1854-1856

Pen and black ink on paper.

5 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (140 x 98 mm)

Purchased as the gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.

1982.10:40a

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Illustration for "The Fata Morgana", depicting the verse "A quivering tongue of lightening flashed, / And, hissing, traced each stay and shroud, / While all around the thunder crashed".
Originally in the Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857.

Provenance:

Given by the artist to Archibald MacLaren, and thence by descent; sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1981, lot 27, repr.

Associated names:

Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826, former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884. Fairy family.

Bibliography:

Maclaren, Archibald. The Fairy Family. London: Dalrymple Press, 1985, p. 162 (repr.)
Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, I, London, 1904, 100, 120, 135-136.
John Christian, "Burne-Jones Studies, I: Burne-Jones's Drawings for 'The Fairy Family,'" Burlington Magazine, cxv, no. 839, February 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
M. Harrison and W. Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
Burne-Jones, Hayward Gallery, London, and elsewhere, 1975, no. 9, repr.

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