Sketch of city; city street, by Edward Burne-Jones

An image of Sketchbook. Recto: Top, sketch of the city as seen in the distance; below, view down a narrow city street lined with buildings. Verso: Upper left, view down city street with an archway at its end; below, sketch of a tiger(?) holding down a man with its front paws. 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: Top, sketch of the city as seen in the distance; below, view down a narrow city street lined with buildings. Verso: Upper left, view down city street with an archway at its end; below, sketch of a tiger(?) holding down a man with its front paws. 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.20
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Camera: Leaf Valeo 22(LF3050 )/Mamiya RB 67
Photographer name: Mark Box
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Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 401.79kB
Exposure time: 1/18
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2011:12:14 14:12:45

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19th Century architectural architecture British buildings Burne-Jones cities city cityscape drawing English Fitz_PDP narrow Pre-Raphaelite recto Sir Edward Burne-Jones sketch sketchbook streets streetscape

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