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Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898
The Knight with His Withered Fiancée (The Tale of the Wife of Bath)
Graphite pencil on paper.
Design area: 5 1/4 x 6 13/16 inches (131 x 173 mm); full sheet: 7 x 10 inches (178 x 254 mm)
Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.
1975.50:6
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Watermark: none.
One of eleven preparatory drawings for illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer published at Hammersmith in 1896.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pencil by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell in upper right corner, "WIFE OF BATH 2"; and in bottom right corner, "p. 114".
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. Wife of Bath's tale.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 251.
Duncan Robinson. A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer, London, 1975, 46, fig. 30.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 95F.
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