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"Alice tries to rise in vain" (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898

"Alice tries to rise in vain" (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

London, 1854-1856.
5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches (146 x 98 mm)
Pen and black ink on paper.
1982.10:19

Purchased as the gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Partial border illustration for "The Pixies", depicting the verse "And with him from her humble bed, / The elder sister lifts her head", incorporating the words "The Sun with" from the first line of verse "The Sun with bright and cheerful face", comprised of decorated initial "T", and stylized hand lettering.
Originally in the Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857.
Associated names
Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826, former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884. Fairy family.
Bibliography
Maclaren, Archibald. The Fairy Family. London: Dalrymple Press, 1985, p. 137 (repr.)
Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, I, London, 1904, 100, 120, 135-136.
John Christian, "Burne-Jones Studies, I: Burne-Jones's Drawings for 'The Fairy Family,'" Burlington Magazine, cxv, no. 839, February 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
M. Harrison and W. Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
Burne-Jones, Hayward Gallery, London, and elsewhere, 1975, no. 9, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department