Edward Coley Burne-Jones

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones

1833-1898

"Aboute the Temple Daunceden alway Wommen Enow..." (The Parlement of Fowles)

Graphite pencil on wove paper.

Design area: 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (130 x 172 mm); full sheet: 7 x 10 inches (178 x 253 mm)

Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.

1975.50:9

Notes:

Watermark: none.
One of eleven preparatory drawings for illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer published at Hammersmith in 1896.
Fragment of temple wall and fragment of flowing hair sketched by the artist in pencil at upper right.

Inscription:

Inscribed in pencil by Sir Sidney C. Cockerell in upper right corner, "ASSEMBLY OF FOWLES / NO IV"; and in bottom margin; "not-engraved - it illustrates/a passage on p. 319".

Provenance:

Sir Philip Burne-Jones, the son of the artist; Sir Sydney C. Cockerell; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 December 1956, lot 45; John M. Crawford, Jr.

Associated names:

Burne-Jones, Philip, 1861-1926, former owner.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, former owner.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Parliament of fowls.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 252.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 951, pl. cvii.

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