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.
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.
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.