By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Dragon Train
Pencil on three pieces of paper mounted together (3 sketchbook sheets)
Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 96 cm
Collection Categories
Caricatures, Amusing and Personal drawings, Works on Paper / Vellum
Inscribed by the artist on individual cars, "CLERGY, LADIES, BISNIS MEN, BABIES, CONVICTS, AGRICULTURALIST, SOCIETY, LADIES' LUGGAGE, SAME CONTINUED, 50 lb 50 lb 10 lb / BOYS"

One of a series of drawings done for his grandchildren. In the carriage marked CONVICTS, there are caricatures of himself (2nd from right) and Morris (3rd from right).

Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (Weston Park Museum)
29/11/2021
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Margaret Burne-Jones (Mrs John William Mackail) 1898-1954
Daniel Shackleton 1971-1981 1971 cited Sheffield catalogue, sold Sotheby's Belgravia
Frederick Robinson Koch (Fred Koch) 1981-1981 bt Sotheby's Belgravia
Sotheby's Belgravia 1981-1981 24 March 1981, lot 53 £440
The Pierpont Morgan Library (The Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum) 1981 - Present 1981.60:10 Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
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. 5 lent by D Shackleton Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (Weston Park Museum)
October 1971 November 1971
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
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. 5 lent by D Shackleton
Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983 Charles Ryskamp 1984
p. 241-242
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pls. VI, VIII between pp. 102-103 and pls. XXII, XXVII, XXIX between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-71, 75-122, 124-150, 153-154, 156-168, 170-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 237-242, 244-249, 251-252, 254-262, 264-272, 274-276, 278-279, 281-317, 319-321, 323-351, 354, 357-361, 363-384, 387-389, 395-396, 398-400, 402, 404-416, 418-446, 451-472, 474, 476, 478-481, 483, 485-502, 504-518, 520, 522-530, 534, 536