Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898
"Aboute the Temple Daunceden alway Wommen Enow..." (The Parlement of Fowles)
Design area: 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (130 x 172 mm); full sheet: 7 x 10 inches (178 x 253 mm)
Graphite pencil on wove paper.
1975.50:9
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.
Fragment of temple wall and fragment of flowing hair sketched by the artist in pencil at upper right.
One of eleven preparatory drawings for illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of Chaucer published at Hammersmith in 1896.
Fragment of temple wall and fragment of flowing hair sketched by the artist in pencil at upper right.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil by Sir Sidney C. Cockerell in upper right corner, "ASSEMBLY OF FOWLES / NO IV"; and in bottom margin; "not-engraved - it illustrates/a passage on p. 319".
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. Parliament of fowls.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, former owner.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Parliament of fowls.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 252.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 951, pl. cvii.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 951, pl. cvii.
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