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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.16
People
Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("Banners")
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1880s?
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297938

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers
Dimensions
25 x 16 cm (9 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: sketchbook cover, graphite: BANNERS
  • label: sketchbook cover, graphite: 67
  • label: inside front cover: FROM THE LIBRARY OF / EDWARD BURNE-JONES / THE GRANGE NORTH / END ROAD FULHAM

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Burne-Jones, the artist's son, London; Miss Gray; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 1, 1928 (£126 10s. 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
1943.1815.16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers. 92 pages. Pages of cream modern laid paper, measuring approximately 241 x 156 mm. (bound irregularly). Watermark: MICHALLET. Drawings are variously in black and purple chalk, graphite, and dark brown ink. Generally the drawings are on both sides of the page. A few are signed with the artist's initials. Only the pages with drawings on them have been catalogued; the following pages are blank: 1, 27-32, 44-87.
Commentary
Mostly banner studies, with some figure studies and landscapes; studies after Michelangelo's "Dawn" and "Night," and for "The Tree of Forgiveness" (1881-82).

Publication History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), cat. no. 45
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 112a
  • 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, checklist no. 11 (fol. 4 recto; incorrectly listed as fol. 3 recto), 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. 168, 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

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • 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

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