'An Impassioned imagination': Burne-Jones as a draughtsman
October 2018
Selected Publications
Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain 24 October 2018 - 24 February 2019
Selected Authors/Editors
Professor Colin Cruise
Selected Artists
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Selected Artworks
Desiderium, Female profile looking right, The Masque of Cupid
Study for the Golden Stairs: Frances Graham at the foot of the stairs
Study for the Golden Stairs: for the third figure from the left at the top of the stairs
Study for The Golden Stairs - 3/4 length of a woman facing the viewer facing down
Study for the Golden Stairs of a woman facing right for the 4th figure from the left at the top of the stairs, holding a long horn
Studies of feet, two right feet and three pairs of feet for The Golden Stairs
Study for the Golden Stairs: Hands holding Cymbals and a Violin
Recto: Study of a Sunflower for The Prioress's Tale (1865-98) verso: Study of Wings related to Love in Love and Beauty design for The Romaunt of the Rose (The Romance of the Rose), Rounton Grange embroidery
Study of a Seated figure leaning against the central pillar on the left-hand side for the Garden Court, The Briar Rose Series
Study of the Beggar Maid for King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (Tate)
Study of Ezekiel’s Hand for Ezekiel and the Boiling Pot; the Parable of the Boiling Pot
Study of Ezekiel’s Arm and Hand for ‘Ezekiel and the Boiling Pot’; the Parable of the Boiling Pot
Composition Study for Ezekiel and the Boiling Pot; the Parable of the Boiling Pot
Composition Study for Ezekiel and the Boiling Pot
Ezekiel and the Boiling Pot; the Parable of the Boiling Pot
The Origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline Quarrel in Florence - Buondelmonte, Gualdrada Donati presenting her Daughter to Buondelmente
Composition Study for ‘Clerk Saunders’
Sketch of Two Seated Figures for 'The Backgammon Players’
An Idyllic Scene; sketch of Two Seated Figures, preliminary sketch for Chant d'Amour, model possibly Fanny Cornforth
Study for the King in The Wheel of Fortune
Nude study of the two figures clinging to each other for Souls on the Banks of the River Styx
Study of a nude male crouching figure and a standing female nude with her arms tightly crossed for the painting Souls on the Banks of the River Styx
Study for The Masque of Cupid from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene
Souls on the Banks of the River Styx
Venus Discordia (possibly the head of Venus is that of Maria Zambaco)
Stella Vespertina
The Answering String, a standing Female with a laurel wreath holding a Zither or Psaltery, in the green court of a building by a barred window (A Zithern Player)
The Answering String, standing Female with a laurel wreath holding a Zither or Psaltery in the Green Court of a Building by a Barred Window
Lot and his Daughters
St Luke design for stained-glass for Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Studies of Drapery and the Figure of the Virgin for The Annunciation (The Virgin Annunciate), stained glass designs for the Church of St Martin’s-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, Yorkshire
The Miracle of the Newborn Child, after Titian
Study of the Head of Bacchus in Tintoretto's "The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne in the Presence of Venus" from the second trip to Italy 1862
Study of a Man's Head looking up open-mouthed (Alessandro di Marco) for the poet at the foot of the Wheel of Fortune and the Centaur in the background of The Feast of Peleus
Study of the Pilgrim for The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness, the reworking of the design for needlework for Rounton Grange: Avarice, Envy, Sorrow, Elde, Hypocrisy, Poverty, illustration to Chaucer's Romance of the Rose (small version) and the later oil: The Pilgrim Outside the Garden of Idleness (statues of Avarice, Envy, Elde, Sorrow; Scene from Roman de la Rose)
Studies of birds (Finches, a Robin and Swallows) for Love Leading the Pilgrim (Love and the Pilgrim)
Studies for Love Leading the Pilgrim (Love and the Pilgrim) Rounton Grange embroidery design
Study for the figure of Merlin in Merlin and Nimue
The Pilgrim Outside the Garden of Idleness (The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness, statues of Avarice, Envy, Elde, Sorrow; Scene from Roman de la Rose)
Study of the Head and Shoulders of a Female Attendant in profile looking right for The Adoration of the Kings (The Adoration of the Magi)
Head of a woman looking down to the left (possibly Georgiana Burne-Jones was the sitter) for the Adoration of the Kings triptych (Tate)
Study for a Female head in profile looking right, with plaited hair and a head scarf for the Wheel of Fortune
The Head of Cassandra; Red chalk drawing of a woman's head; her face ears a tragic expression and her mouth is open (Maria Zambaco)
Maria Zambaco lying down, head to the left resting on a pillow MDCCCLXXI
Head of a Woman with Furrowed Brow for Medusa in the Finding of Medusa, The Perseus Series
Study of a nude female figure for a Gorgon in the Finding of Medusa - Perseus Series
Nude study of Andromeda for 'The Doom Fulfilled' in the 'Perseus' series; whole-length figure, standing and seen from behind with head turned to right.
Study of Athena (Minerva) for 'The Call of Perseus' (Perseus Series) with an additional study of a hand holding a mirror, for The Call of Perseus
Sketchbook V&A E.442-1943 for Perseus and Andromeda Perseus Series, The Depths of the Sea and The Legend of the Briar Rose
Study for Andromeda for Perseus and Andromeda, The Perseus Series
Study for the Head of Medusa in The Baleful Head, Perseus series
Study of Armour: Perseus in The Finding of Medusa
Nymphs of the Stars
Nymphs of the Moon
Grotesque head of a man
A Bathing Beauty: a pair of drawings showing the front and back of a tattooed lady, of Emma De Burgh / Emma Frank at Brighton
Caricature of an Annunciation by Rubens, Letters to Katie (Katie Lewis)
The Artist and Maria Zambaco - The Artist and his Model (Recto); slight studies of a girl (Verso)
William Morris Reading Poems to Burne-Jones
Caricature of Four Figures in Long Robes
Account Book Vol II with Morris & Co. with caricature frontispiece Self Portrait and portrait of William Morris as stained glass
Self-portrait - Burne-Jones at the Breakfast Table - caricature in a letter to Cosmo Monkhouse on The Grange headed notepaper ( mentions damage to Love Among the Ruins )
Caricature letter to Angela Mackail
Letters from Burne-Jones to May and Daphne Gaskell in five albums: 1) Album letters from EB-J to Mrs Gaskell 2) Album letters from EB-J to Mrs Gaskell 3) Album letters from EB-J to Mrs Gaskell II, 4) Album of illustrated letters from EB-J to Mrs Gaskell, 5) Album of illustrated letters from EB-J to Daphne Gaskell
Head study for the Mermaid in The Depths of the Sea (possibly of Laura Lyttelton)