By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
An Album of forty-eight drawings given to May Gaskell
pencil, red chalk and watercolour on paper
1860 circa - 1896 circa
Dimensions: 20.1 cm x 13.7 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Sketchbooks, Albums, Notebooks, Folio Volumes, Works on Paper / Vellum

41 in pencil and 8 in water colour, containing (inter alia) an early design in watercolour for "The Depths of the Sea", the "motive" of which differs totally from the picture as subsequently carried out - (she looks upward in profile) - as well as a scene, anterior to that of the picture, where the mermaid has first seized the mariner, but he is still fighting for his life. Also many pencil designs for the Kelmscott Press Chaucer, and other books - e.g., in the Golden Legend, the drawing of the Angels welcoming the Souls over the battlements of heaven.

William Cosmo Monkhouse
18/06/2020
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Mrs Helen Mary “May” Gaskell (née Helen Mary Melville, Mrs. Henry Gaskell) 1892-1939 Gift from the artist
Ashmolean Museum 1939 - Present WA1939.9 - 48 Presented by Mrs Helen Mary Gaskell, CBE, 1939
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 p. 43 case of Painted Books and Sketches no. 3 Burlington Fine Arts Club
1899 1899
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 309 p. 87 The Hayward Gallery
November 1975 January 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 309 p. 87 Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham Museums Trust)
March 1976 April 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 309 p. 87 Southampton City Art Gallery
January 1976 February 1976
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
p. 43 case of Painted Books and Sketches no. 3
Burne-Jones: the paintings, graphic and decorative work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-98, Hayward Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 1975-6 John Christian, Miss Penelope Marcus 1975
cat no. 309 p. 87
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 p 190 fig 80
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XIX between pp. 230-231 aand pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 21, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 2, 43, 50, 71, 87, 112, 135, 192, 203, 238, 248-249, 256, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-66, 68-71, 75-93, 95-116, 120-122, 124-132, 134-151, 153-154, 156-168, 170, 172-177, 179-193, 198-191, 194-203, 205, 207-214, 216-224, 229-232, 234-325, 237-240, 242, 244-252, 254-255, 257, 259-262, 264-269, 270-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-347, 357-361, 363-384, 387-389, 395, 398-400, 402, 405-416, 418-436, 437-446, 448, 451-462, 464-472, 474, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 491-501, 504-508, 509-517, 522-523, 525-530, 533-534, 536