Study for King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1942.17
People: Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
Title: Study for King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1883
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298097

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black, red, and white chalk on pink wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 45.9 x 30.3 cm (18 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: [CAN]SON MONGOLFIER VIDALON LE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.17

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 27
Fiona Mann, "'Opaque with a vengeance:' Burne-Jones's Later Watercolours, 1880-98", The Burlington Magazine (February 2019), 161, no. 1391, pp. 128-139, p. 131, fig. 3

Exhibition History

Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946

Verification Level

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1942.17: Study for King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid