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Top, sketch of a woman(1); lower right, sketch of a woman seated at a table(2) Sketch of a sailing ship(1); below, a sketch of a ribboned flag on a pole(2)
Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward
From the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones, and Mrs Mackail.
Height: 172 mm
Width: 127 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1923-04) by Burne-Jones, Sir Philip
Recto (1): from Bonifazio's 'Rich Man's feast', in the Accademia, Venice, (Berenson: Italian Painters of the Renaissance', Phaidon, pl. 90). Verso (1): this is the background vessel, and the flag (2) is a copy of that found at the left of Carpaccio's painting 'The Return of the Ambassadors to the King of England', from the cycle of the Scuola di Sant' Orsala. (Lautts pl. 36).
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Watercolour : Recto: graphite underdrawing, watercolour and bodycolour verso: graphite on paper
Accession number: 1084.12a
Primary reference Number: 26935
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: C.20-1993
Accession Number: 828.f.15
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