Watermark: none.
Illustration for "The Moss-Woman", depicting the verse "They call to her loud and urgently: / But clinging about her the Moss-woman stands ... 'In pity, in pity, oh save my child!'", with the words "Tis the hour", from the opening verse "TIS the looked for hour", comprised of decorated inital "T", and stylized hand lettering. The word "hour" is crossed out in pencil, over which is written in pencil "Tis the looked for hour of noontide rest".
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.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826, former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884. Fairy family.
Maclaren, Archibald. The Fairy Family. London: Dalrymple Press, 1985, p. 188 (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.