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Custance Cast Forth on the Sea (The Tale of the Manne of Lawe)

Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898

Custance Cast Forth on the Sea (The Tale of the Manne of Lawe)

Design area: 5 1/8 x 6 13/16 (130 x 172 mm); full sheet: 10 x 7 inches (254 x 177 mm)
Graphite pencil on paper.
1975.50:4

Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.

Notes
Watermark: none.
One of eleven preparatory drawings for illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer published at Hammersmith in 1896.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell in bottom right corner, "p. 43".
Associated names
Burne-Jones, Philip, 1861-1926, former owner.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 former owner.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Man of law's tale.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 250-251.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 95D, pl. civ.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department