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Sketchbook: 1070(3)

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Sketchbook

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward

Entities

Categories

Description

White linen covered notebook containing 28 leaves.

Legal notes

Given by the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones and Mrs Margaret Mackail.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1922-07) by Burne-Jones, Sir Philip

School or Style

British

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 140 mm Width 98 mm
Coverboard Height 142 mm Width 99 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 13
  • Location: Front end paper pasted to inside of cover board, upper left
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: Presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum / by Philip Burne-Jones & Margaret Mackail. / 1922
  • Location: Front endpaper pasted to inside of cover board, upper centre
  • Method of creation: Black ink

Inscription present: the final [ ] appears at bottom of page, upside down

  • Text: 1st Prologue - excaliber arthur & merlin / coming down - a limitless meer. a high rock / a path down which they come - rocks & rocks / 1st scene / Chamber in arthurs [sic] court - closed / interior - no outlook - audience chamber / Guenivere [sic] bower - an upper chamber - a / window at back through which Elaine can / look down & see Knights [assembling?] to / go [for?] grail - principal feature is window / which Elaine may throw open - / chamber has entrance on both side. [sic] / last scene - / great hall at Camelot / a head high opening & Knight's riding / by [???] Veneris - a big Dais & / throne - Knight's filing past while the / King persuades Lancelot to stay - / open air outside is essential / down on stage right - no door a left / [state - Oxford St clost to / Bond St]
  • Location: Front endpaper pasted to inside of cover board
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 1070(3)
Primary reference Number: 82402
Stable URI

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

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sketchbook" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82402 Accessed: 2024-11-28 20:13:46

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82402 |title=Sketchbook |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-28 20:13:46|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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