Current Location: In storage
Titles
Sketchbook
Maker(s)
Draughtsman:
Burne-Jones, Edward
Entities
Categories
Description
Coverboards covered with white linen. Off-white paper. Collocation: each leaf is separately taped to the binding. Tape on leaf 15 is almost totally severed. There are 39 ff. Leaves 1 (originally attached to blue inside binding tape) 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 32 are missing.
Notes
History note: Sold lot number 98 (Sotheby's?) (from Sir Philip Burne-Jones Collection, after his death, 21 June 1926?); Ricketts and Shannon Collection
Legal notes
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
The numeration of the leaves in the Burne-Jones manuscript list is in odd order, but the numbers are not all consecutive; therefore it is difficult to know which of the missing leaves in the sketch book correspond to the missing sketches which according to the manuscript list are as follows:
Head for Sea nymph in 2. P---------1.
Head for Sea nymph in 2. P---------3.
Perseus in first picture. P. ------------5.
Useless studies for Perseus in 2. P.---7. 9.
Sketch for Sea nymphs ---------------11.
Same ------------13.
(there is no number '15') (there is no number '25')
Athene first pic. P -----------------------27.
Margaret Benson ------------------------29.
Sketch for Margaret Benson--------33.
Various sketches from same. ------35---------45.
Perseus in first picture. P-------------49.
Study of a head --------------------------59.
Studies of Fortitude ---------------------67, 69.
Components of the work
Coverboard
Depth 40 mm
Height 275 mm
Width 204 mm
Sheet Size
Height 268 mm
Width 175 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: VI
- Location: Coverboard, top, left of centre
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: 50
- Location: Coverboard, upper right
- Method of creation: Graphite MS label
- Text: E. BURNE-JONES / MDCCCLXXVII:
- Location: Inside front cover, upper centre
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: 9 8/1
- Location: Inside front cover, upper left
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: 52 Pages of / Studies
- Location: Inside front cover, upper centre
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: FROM THE LIBRARY OF / EDWARD BURNE-JONES / THE GRANGE NORTH / END ROAD FULHAM
- Location: Inside front cover, centre
- Method of creation: Printed label
Inscription present: the '98' encircled and to the left is the notation: NW/-/-
- Text: Sir Ed. Burne-Jones, BT. 98 A sketch book, dated 1877, containing numerous studies in pencil for the artist's pictures, e.g., Arming of Perseus, Wheel of Fortune, Feast of peleus, etc. Black chalk size of leaves 10 1/2 in. by 7in.
- Location: Inside front cover, below centre
- Method of creation: Catalogue cutting (?)
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Identification numbers
Accession number: 1991A
Primary reference Number: 26811
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022
Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
