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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Mirror of Venus 1877 (Venus's Looking Glass)
Oil on canvas
1873 - 1877
Dimensions: 122 cm x 199.5 cm
Collection Categories
Oils, tempera on canvas/panel and Mixed Media
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Owner
Dates Owned
Further Info.
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Accession
no.
circa
Frederick Richards Leyland
1877-1892
Bt from the artist for 3,575 guineas
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods)
1892-1892
Frederick Richards Leyland sale May 28, 1892
Thomas Agnew & Sons
1892-1892
Bought at the Leyland sale on Ruston's behalf by Agnew & Sons sold in 1898 for 5450 gns (de Lisle says 3,400 gns)
Joesph Rushton
1892-1898
Bought at the Leyland sale on Ruston's behalf by Agnew & Sons, sold in 1898 for 5450 gns
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods)
1898-1898
Joseph Ruston, Monk's Manor, Lincoln (1886–d. 1897; His Estate Sale, Christie's, London, May 21, 1898 5,450 gns
Charles Fairfax Murray
1898-1904
puchased Christies
Major Charles Sydney Goldman
1904
cited in de Lisle 1904
Arthur Ruck
1924
Acquired by Calouste Gulbenkian from Arthur Ruck, London, 29th September 1924.
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods)
1924-1924
September 29, 1924, sold by Ruck, purchased Gulbenkian £5,722
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
1924-1957
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
1969 - Present
Exhibition
Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no.
Institution/Venue
People
From
To
Grosvenor Gallery First Annual Exhibition 1 May - 31 May 1877
Cat no 62
Grosvenor Gallery
May 1877
May 1877
Exhibition of the Works of Edward Burne-Jones, 1892-3, The New Gallery Winter exhibition December 1892
Cat no 54
The New Gallery
December 1892
January 1893
Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart 1898-9, Winter Exhibition , New Gallery 1898
Cat no 99
The New Gallery
December 1898
August 1899
Burne-Jones: [catalogue by W. S. Taylor, of an exhibition held at the] Mappin Art Gallery, Weston Park, Sheffield, from 23rd October to 28th November
cat no. 111 (as a photographic reproduction)
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (Weston Park Museum)
October 1971
November 1971
Title
Author/Editor
Year
Page No. & Illustrations
Attachments
Grosvenor Notes 1877
Henry Blackburn
1877
Cat no 62 p 6 mentionned on p 1
A Pre-Raphaelite Mansion - Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1890
Theodore Child
1890
p 81-99 illus p 99
Art and Criticism . Monographs and Studies
Theodore Child
1892
Illustrated as frontispiece
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: An Illustrated Record and Review 2nd Edition 1893
Malcolm Bell
1893
illus p. 3 as Venus's Looking Glass
The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart Art Annual 1894
Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Henry Ady)
1894
illus opp p. 18
The Strand Magazine volume 10 - Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart, July-December 1895
L T Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith)
1895
p 18 illus p 18
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: An Illustrated Record and Review 4th Edition 1895
Malcolm Bell
1895
illus between pp. 2-3
The Review of Reviews July -Dec 1898
William Thomas Stead
1898
illus p viii
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, 4th edition, 1898
Malcolm Bell
1898
illus opp. p. 56
The Year's Art 1899
A C R Carter
1899
p 297
Sir Edward Burne-Jones von Cornelius Gurlitt
Cornelius Gurlitt
1900
pl 3
Die Kunst unserer Zeit Eine Chronik des Modernen kunstlebens 1900
Cornelius Gurlitt
1900
pl 3
Sir Edward Burne-Jones von Cornelius Gurlitt
Cornelius Gurlitt
1900
Burne-Jones memorial article
Thomas Humphrey Ward
1900
Sir Edward Burne-Jones A Record and Review 1903
Malcolm Bell
1903
illus opp p. 56
Burne-Jones, Fortunée de Lisle
Fortunée de Lisle
1904
p. 184
Edward Burne-Jones Munsey's Magazine (February 1907)
Royal Cortissoz
1907
La Peinture Anglaise de ses origines a no jours
Armand Dayot
1908
illus p 207
Time Was: the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson
Walford Graham Robertson
1931
p. 47
Visionary and Dreamer Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Burne Jones
Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil (David Cecil)
1969
illus pl. 52 between pp. 190-191
Burne-Jones, Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield from 23rd October to 28th November 1971
William S Taylor
1971
cat no. 111 (as a photographic reproduction)
The Palace of Art: Sir Coutts Lindsay and the Grosvenor Gallery
Professor J Barrie Bullen
1975
Illus fig. 9 p. 357
The Pre-Raphaelites
Christopher Wood (Christopher Edward Russell Wood)
1981
illus. on cover and p. 119
Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
John Christian, Stephen Wildman, Laurence des Cars, Alan Crawford, Philippe de Montebello, Irene Bizot, Graham Allen, Henri Loyrette
1998
fig. 86 p. 192
Victorian Painting
Christopher Wood (Christopher Edward Russell Wood)
1999
illus p 119 and on the cover
Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus: Surface and Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of the 1870s
Professor Kate Flint
1999
p 152- 164 illus p 153 fig 40
Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus: Surface and Subjectivity in the Art Criticism of the 1870s
Professor Kate Flint
1999
Unpainted Masterpieces: The Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones
Debra N Mancoff
2005
illus p 50 fig 7
Unpainted Masterpieces: The Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones
Debra N Mancoff
2005
Millais and the Pre-Raphaelites
Michael Robinson
2007
p 368 illus p 369
Art as Lived Religion: Edward Burne-Jones as Painter, Priest, Pilgrim, and Monk
Colette Michelle Crossman
2007
Painting in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection. Milan: Skira; Lisbon
Luísa Sampaio
2009
no. 109, pl., p. 240-41
Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise (das irdische Paradies)
William Waters, Christofer Conrad, Annabel Zettel, Dr Sean Rainbird, Matthias Frehner, Simon Oberholzer, Vera Klewitz, Peter Nahum, Katharina Wippermann, Fabian Frohlich (Fabian Fröhlich)
2009
Illus fig 35 p. 101
The Mirror of Venus
Fabian Frohlich (Fabian Fröhlich)
2009
Pre-Raphaelites
Heather Birchall, Norbert Wolf
2010
p 82 illus p 83
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2011
João Castel-Branco Pereira, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
2011
no. 168, pl., p. 189.
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Fiona MacCarthy
2011
pp. 186-188, 218, 255-256, 266, 280-287, 283, 290. 295, 332, 343, 365, 371-373. 401, 421-422, 493, 509, 525-526
Edward Burne-Jones, バーン・ジョーンズ展 (Japan 2012)
Stephen Wildman, Professor Joichiro Kawamura (The K Collection)
2012
fig 4 p. 9; illus fig 6 p. 21
Edward Burne-Jones's The Mirror of Venus
Professor Liana De Girolami Cheney
2019
Edward Burne-Jones - part 4, Art & Artists
Paul Webb
2020
Edward Burne-Jones part 6, Art & Artists
Paul Webb
2020
Edward Burne-Jones part 11, Art & Artists
Paul Webb
2020
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms
Professor Liana De Girolami Cheney
2021
illus pl. XXVII