Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1815.17.1-11: Sketchbook 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 (Edward Burne-Jones) , 1943.1815.17.1-11,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297939. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1815.17.1-11 People Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England) Title Sketchbook Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date c. 1880-1886 Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297939 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with tan cloth covers Dimensions 27 x 17 cm (10 5/8 x 6 11/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: front cover, brown ink: XVI 18/80 label: inside front cover: ROBERSON & Co. / 99, LONG ACRE, LONDON. label: inside front cover: FROM THE LIBRARY OF / EDWARD BURNE-JONES / THE GRANGE NORTH / END ROAD FULHAM label: front cover, graphite: 41 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 1943.1815.17.1-11 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; remains of cloth ties. 12 pages; the last remaining pages are in uncut drawing block. Pages of heavy cream wove paper, measuring 263 x 150 mm. Drawings in graphite and black crayon. Most are signed with the artist's initials. Most of the pages were removed before the sketchbook came to the Fogg. Commentary Studies for "The Hours," (1870-83), "Flamma Vestalis," (1886), "Hill Fairies" (1881-98), and "The Bath of Venus" (1873-88). Publication History Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), cat. no. 46 Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 112b 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. 10, 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. 169, repr. (color) 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 Works 1943.1815.17.11 Edward Burne-Jones Wood Sprite; verso: blank Drawings 1943.1815.17.7 Edward Burne-Jones Studies of Hands for "The Bath of Venus"; verso: Study for "Flamma Vestalis" Drawings 1943.1815.17.2 Edward Burne-Jones Hand Holding a Distaff, for "The Hours"; verso: blank Drawings 1943.1815.17.5 Edward Burne-Jones Studies of Hands for "The Bath of Venus"; verso: blank Drawings 1943.1815.17.4 Edward Burne-Jones Drapery Study; verso: blank Drawings 1943.1815.17.8 Edward Burne-Jones Study for "Flamma Vestalis"; verso: Two Studies of a Wood Sprite Drawings 1943.1815.17.6 Edward Burne-Jones Studies of Hands for "The Bath of Venus"; verso: blank Drawings 1943.1815.17.10 Edward Burne-Jones Wood Sprite and Study of a Leg, for "Hill Fairies"; verso: Wood Sprite Drawings 1943.1815.17.9 Edward Burne-Jones Wood Sprite; verso: Study of a Leg, for "Hill Fairies" Drawings 1943.1815.17.3 Edward Burne-Jones Studies of Hands Holding a Dish and Cymbal, for "The Hours"; verso: Drapery Study Drawings 1943.1815.17.1 Edward Burne-Jones Clasped Hands, for "The Hours"; verso: Right Hand Holding Thread, for "The Hours" Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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