Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1815.15.1-44: Sketchbook Drawings Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook (Edward Burne-Jones) , 1943.1815.15.1-44,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jun 16, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/297573. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1815.15.1-44 People Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England) Title Sketchbook Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1870s-1880s Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297573 Physical Descriptions Medium Tan cloth covers, pencil sleeve, remains of cloth ties; forty-four pages of heavy cream wove paper (the remaining pages are uncut) Dimensions 14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks label: front cover, graphite: 33 label: inside front cover, printed: Roberson label (see 1943.1815.17), mostly removed label: inside front cover, printed: FROM THE LIBRARY OF / EDWARD BURNE-JONES / THE GRANGE NORTH / END ROAD FULHAM inscription: inside front cover, printed and inscribed: excerpt from Sotheby's sale catalogue: SIR ED. BURNE-JONES, BT. / 96 A sketch book containing numerous studies of draperies, / figures, etc. / Black chalk / size of leaves 6 1/4 in. by 4 1/2 in. Graphite inscription on excerpt: LK 1- 1- [?] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Philip Burne-Jones, the artist's son, London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 10, 1926, no. 96 (£11); purchased at that sale by (?) Spencer; Miss Gray; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 1, 1928 (£126 10 s. for cat nos. 166-169); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.1815.15.1-44 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Sketchbook with tan cloth covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. 44 pages; the last quarter of the pages are in uncut drawing block. Pages of heavy cream wove paper, measuring 134 x 94 mm. Drawings are in graphite. Generally the drawings are on both sides of the page. Almost all are signed with the artist's initials. Commentary Mostly drapery and head studies, possibly studies for "The Wheel of Fortune" (1875-83). Publication History Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), cat. no. 44 Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1994), no. 12, under checklist no. 9, p. 11 Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 167, repr. (color) Debra N. Mancoff, "Unpainted Masterpieces: The Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones", Museum Studies [Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago] (2005), vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 44-55, p. 92, note 25 Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, website, Harvard University Art Museums, 2006, www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sketchbooks Exhibition History Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946 Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993 Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995 A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004 Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006 Related Objects Object Number 1943.1815.15.20 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Foot; verso: Right Foot Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.36 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study with Sword Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.38 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Male Nude from Behind with Left Hand to Forehead; verso: Figure in Hooded Cloak Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.11 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study (continues on page 10 verso); verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.10 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study (continues on page 11 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.12 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Hands; verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.23 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure Seen from Behind; verso: Drapery Study with Foot Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.41 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Female Figure with Draped Head; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.22 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Foot; verso: Drapery Study (Knot) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.25 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Male Head; verso: Male Head Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.26 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Male Head; verso: Male Head Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.7 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Female Head and Torso, Draped; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.18 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study, Lower Half; verso: Hand and Drapery Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.44 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Birds Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.42 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Child's Head; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.5 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure, Lower Half; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.2 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Turbaned Head; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.19 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Foot; verso: Drapery Study with Foot Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.21 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Left Foot; verso: Drapery Study (Bodice) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.13 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study (knee) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.6 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure, Lower Half; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.34 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study (Torso, waist, and legs) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.35 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study (Torso, waist, and legs); verso: Drapery Study (Torso, waist, and legs) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.37 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Leg and Sword; verso: Study of Drapery in a Box Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.39 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Figure in Hooded Cloak; verso: Figure in Hooded Cloak with Staff Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.40 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure from Behind; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.15 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.3 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Turbaned Head; verso: Draped Female Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.4 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure, Lower Half; verso: Draped Figure, Lower Half Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.8 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure, Lower Half: verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.27 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Drapery Study (Waist and legs) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.33 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study (Waist and leg); verso: Drapery Study (Waist) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.29 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Inscription; verso: Drapery Study (Torso, waist, and legs) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.31 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study with Leg and Sword; verso: Drapery Study (Torso, waist, and legs) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.32 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study (Waist); verso: Two Drapery Studies (Waist) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.24 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Woman in Headdress; verso: Male Head in Profile Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.28 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Draped Leg Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.30 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Thistle Emblem Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.43 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Draped Figure, Lower Half; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.9 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study with Hand Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.17 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.14 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.16 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Drapery Study; verso: Drapery Study Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.15.1 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Turbaned Head; verso: blank page Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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