1942.18: A Wood Sprite

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.18

People

Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)

Title

A Wood Sprite

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study of a male figure leaning back against a rock

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1885

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298475

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

25.2 x 12.5 cm (9 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r., graphite: E. B-J. 1885

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.18

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. 30
• New Acquisitions 1800-1900: Watercolors, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (Spring exhibition), auct. cat., Shepherd & Derom Galleries (New York, NY, 1999), under no. 21
• 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. 93, note 45

Exhibition History

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

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