The Virgin being supported, by Edward Burne-Jones

An image of Sketchbook. Recto: Copy of a detail - the Virgin being supported - from the Mantegna painting (Louvre, Paris). Verso: Blank. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Coverboards covered with white linen. Front cover has horizontal slits at the upper and lower right sides. Off-white paper. Collocation: each sheet is separately taped to the binding; there are 28ff and a single beige sheet on either side of these. Front and back leaves are blank, recto and verso. Height, sheet size, 179 mm, width, sheet size, 254, mm, 1873.

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Sketchbook. Recto: Copy of a detail - the Virgin being supported - from the Mantegna painting (Louvre, Paris). Verso: Blank. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Coverboards covered with white linen. Front cover has horizontal slits at the upper and lower right sides. Off-white paper. Collocation: each sheet is separately taped to the binding; there are 28ff and a single beige sheet on either side of these. Front and back leaves are blank, recto and verso. Height, sheet size, 179 mm, width, sheet size, 254, mm, 1873.

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Accession Number: 1070(5).f.28
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Camera: Leaf Valeo 22(LF3050 )/Mamiya RB 67
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 776 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 424.00kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:12:14 14:16:15

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19th Century British Burne-Jones Christianity drawing English Fitz_PDP Madonna Pre-Raphaelite religion religious Sir Edward Burne-Jones sketch sketchbook Virgin Mary

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