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Colour notes: 1085A.f.4

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Colour notes
Colour notes

Maker(s)

Author: Burne-Jones, Edward

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Given by the Artist's son and daughter Sir Philip Burne-Jones and Mrs Margaret Mackail.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1923-04) by Burne-Jones, Sir Philip

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Sheet Size Height 203 mm Width 322 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Graphite on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: list of numbers used as codes for colours for the tesserae for the mosaics at St Paul's, Rome

  • Text: (?)76 / white dress ('270' (crossed out)) 855. 14. 1253 - from dark to light / red {from dark scarlet to flesh 856, 1863, 15, 1731, 637, 1488 / a dark red black 1748 / shade of flesh. lips 1863, cheek 15, light ('dark' (crossed out)) local colour 1731 darkd. 488 / from indian red to pink 1805, 212, 1833, 1785, 2163, 664 / bright scarle(t) [sic] 321 / purples 1848, 2055, 1853, 2332, / blue {dress 1686, 1675 1804 522, 1726 - there are positive (?) blue / 2 odd blues for nimbus or what not 551. 1992 / sky 38. 281. 130. 1139 / turqouise [sic] 1110. 1417. 1774. 550 / greens {water 1478, ('161 16' (crossed out)) 819, 1305 / nimbus - bright 1202. 295. 971. 1057 / wing possibly, blue green 1866. 330, 1280 / yellow ('gold colour' (crossed out)) 1288. 2361- 529 / brown {for hair / extra flesh colour / ('532' (crossed out)) 352 1691* / hair 2080. 352 / musical instruments a yellow shaded with brown / strings /gold
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: continued from recto

  • Text: Gold - tinsel - / silver 89 / red gold 15 / *dark gold 10 / main gold colour -1
  • Location: Verso, top of leaf
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: upside down

  • Text: cut gold small - all neck (?) (-----) parts very / small - this matters more than faces / all white. one white, not blue white a yellow white
  • Location: Verso, bottom of leaf
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 1085A.f.4
Primary reference Number: 82341
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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