Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1815.16: Sketchbook ("Banners") Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook ("Banners") (Edward Burne-Jones) , 1943.1815.16,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Feb 10, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/297938. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 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. 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 Related Objects Object Number 1943.1815.16.17 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Banners: verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.13 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banners (continues on page 12 verso); verso: Three Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.19 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Three Banners; verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.22 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.15 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Banners; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.12 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Two Banners (continues on page 13 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.10 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Banners; verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.8 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Studies of "Night's" Leg, after Michelangelo; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.6 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Study of "Night's" Leg, after Michelangelo; verso: Study of "Night," after Michelangelo Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.5 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Study of "Dawn," after Michelangelo; verso: blank Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.36 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Trees; verso: Trees (continues on page 37 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.37 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Tree Root (continues on page 36 verso); verso: Tree (continues on page 38 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.26 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.90 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Male Left Leg, for "The Tree of Forgiveness" Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.11 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Three Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.9 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.7 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Studies of "Night's" Arm, after Michelangelo; verso: Study of "Night's" Arm, after Michelangelo Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.14 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Three Banners; verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.23 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.24 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner: verso: Banner (continues on page 25 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.39 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Landscape (continues on page 38 verso); verso: Trees in Landscape (continues on page 40 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.41 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Birch Trees; verso: Study of a Tree; Wooded Landscape (continues on page 42 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.40 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Landscape (continues on page 39 verso); verso: Birch Trees and Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.42 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Wooded Landscape (continues on page 41 verso); verso: Wooded Landscape (continues on page 43 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.88 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Male Left Leg, for "The Tree of Forgiveness" Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.43 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Wooded Landscape (continues on page 42 verso); verso: blank Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.92 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Two Musculature Studies of a Right Leg, for "The Tree of Forgiveness" Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.91 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Male Left Leg, for "The Tree of Forgiveness"; verso: Male Head and Torso Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.34 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Trees; verso: Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.35 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.4 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Study of "Dawn," after Michelangelo; verso: blank Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.33 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Trees Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.38 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Tree (continues on page 37 verso); verso: Landscape (continues on page 39 recto) Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.2 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Nude Seen from Behind; verso: Figure Studies Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.89 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Blank; verso: Studies of a Male Right Leg, for "The Tree of Forgiveness" Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.18 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Three Banners: verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.20 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.16 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Banners: verso: Two Banners Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.3 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Female Nude, after Michelangelo(?); verso: blank Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.21 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Banner; verso: Banner Classification Drawings Object Number 1943.1815.16.25 Artist Edward Burne-Jones Title Two Banners (continues on page 24 verso); verso: Banner Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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