BIB_ID
424264
Accession number
MA 14255
Display Date
London : H. & R. Stiles, [1896].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987
Description
1 photographic print : platinotype ; photograph: 143 x 111 mm; mount: 227 x 175 mm
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Year of photograph from inscription on verso.
Platinotype on photographer's card mount.
Photograph appears to have been taken during the same sitting as the National Portrait Gallery's NPG x3690 and NPG x3691 (See MA 5197.2 for a print of NPG x3690 in the Morgan Library's collection); the National Portrait Gallery online catalog dates these two photographs to November 1895.
Year of photograph from inscription on verso.
Platinotype on photographer's card mount.
Photograph appears to have been taken during the same sitting as the National Portrait Gallery's NPG x3690 and NPG x3691 (See MA 5197.2 for a print of NPG x3690 in the Morgan Library's collection); the National Portrait Gallery online catalog dates these two photographs to November 1895.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscibed in ink on verso: Edward Burne-Jones / Angela Mackail - aged 5 yrs 9 months / Denis Mackail - aged 3 years 4 months [at left] Nov 11. 1896.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Portrait of Burne-Jones, seated on a settle with his young grandchildren, Denis and Angela Mackail (later, Angela Thirkell); Denis is seated on his grandfather's knee at left, and Angela sits beside, holding his arm, at right, as Burne-Jones looks into the camera as he holds a document which rests on his knee.
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