By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Study for The Wedding Feast of Sir Degrevaunt and Lady Mildore (The Marriage Feast of Sir Degrevaunt) for the mural in the drawing room at the Red House
Pen, in brown ink and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper
1859 - 1860
Dimensions: 29.7 cm x 35.6 cm
Collection Categories
Decorative Schemes and Murals, Early Pen & Ink on vellum & paper done whilst working under D G Rossetti, Works on Paper / Vellum
Signed and inscribed on the mount: From your affectionate friend E.B.J.; inscribed verso, lower right: "EDW. C. BURNE-JONES : Study for the Wedding Feast of Sir Degrevaunt"
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Charles Augustus Howell
Henry Wallis 1899-1916 Present from EB-J; Lent to Burlington exhibition. By descent to 1973
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 1973-1973 Wallis Estate sale, Christie's, 13 March 1973 lot 35 bought P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd.
Colnaghi; P & D Colnaghi, London 1973
Thomas Agnew & Sons 1977-1978 Agnew's, Master Drawings, Nov-December 1977 cat no. 55
Yale Center for British Art and Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository (Yale University Art Gallery) 1978 - Present B1978.35 Paul Mellon Fund
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. Burlington Fine Arts Club BFAC 1899 cat. no. 136 p. 28 lent by Henry Wallis Burlington Fine Arts Club
1899 1899
Master Drawings Agnews 1977 Agnew's, Master Drawings, Nov-December 1977 cat no. 55 Thomas Agnew & Sons November 1977 December 1977
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Burlington Fine Arts Club Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart BFAC William Cosmo Monkhouse 1899
cat. no. 136 p. 28 lent by Henry Wallis
Burne-Jones, Fortunée de Lisle Fortunée de Lisle 1904
p. 187
William Morris: A Life for Our Time Fiona MacCarthy 1994
colour pls. I-IV, pls. 35-36 between pp. 204-205, pp. 154-196
Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) Christopher Wood (Christopher Edward Russell Wood) 1998
illus p 33
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 181, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-66, 68-71, 75-116, 120-122, 124-126, 129-132, 134-150, 153-154, 156-168, 170, 172-177, 179-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 238-240, 244-249, 251-252, 254-255, 257, 259-262, 264-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-350, 357-361, 363-384, 387-389, 395, 398-400, 402, 405-416, 418-433, 438, 441-445, 451-462, 464-470, 478-479, 483, 487-489, 491-498, 420, 500-501, 504-517, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536
Beauty's Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection Christopher Newall, Dr Dennis T Lanigan, Sonia Del Re 2015
Illus underr cat no. 10