Current Location: In storage
Titles
Sketchbook
Maker(s)
Draughtsman:
Burne-Jones, Edward
Entities
Categories
Description
Black leather spine with floral and leaf tooled design at its edge. Brown leather coverboards. Leather pen holder on top edge. Off-white paper. Collocation: 1(4) [missing 4,5?, 7, 8], 2(6) [missing 2 and 7?], 3(8), 4(7) [missing 5]. Twenty-three ff., endpaper's also used.
Front endpaper: partially attached to inside front coverboard, upper left, within a drawn square, a sketch of a group of people within an architectural setting. Centre left, within a drawn square, sketch of a group of people, several with arms raised within an architectural setting. Centre right, within a drawn square extended at the right top, sketch of Cupid upon a lion [study for the central group of 'Masque of Cupid'. Superimposed over the lower right corner of the square is an undefined line drawing. Lower centre. sketch of a figure reclining on a bed (?), perhaps a study for 'Masque of Cupid'.
Rear endpaper: partially attached to inside to rear coverboard, studies of columns, column bases, and designs on columns.
Legal notes
From the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones and Mrs Mackail.
Production date:
circa
AD 1872
Components of the work
Coverboard
Depth 20 mm
Height 267 mm
Width 372 mm
Sheet Size
Height 255 mm
Width 362 mm
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: advertisement for Charles Keene's studio easels
- Location: Front endpaper
- Method of creation: Newspaper clipping, pasted down
- Text: Mme Vivet / 58 Walham Grove / Fulham:
- Location: Lower left
- Method of creation: Graphite
Inscription present: advertisement for studio easels
- Text: opinion of the Press... 1863
- Location: Rear endpaper
- Method of creation: Newspaper clipping, pasted down
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: 1085
Primary reference Number: 26808
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 29 September 2023
Last processed: Wednesday 11 October 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
