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Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898
Immortale Quod Opto [“Immortal, What I Wish”]
1885
15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm)
Black and white chalk on brown paper.
2025.114
Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
Notes
This is a design for a blotter holder, designed by Burne-Jones as a wedding present for Laura Tennant (1862-1886), one of the London “Souls” and a muse to the artist, when she married Alfred Lyttelton (1857-1913) in 1885. The design was executed in silver but seems not to survive.
Associated names
Filler, Martin, former owner.
Bibliography
MacCarthy, Fiona. The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward -Jones and the Victorian Imagination, Faber & Faber, 2011, p. 339
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