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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Recto: The Hill Fairies (Hill Fairy, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon) Two studies of a female nudes, upper torsos, turning away to the left and the right in an Album of forty-eight drawings; verso: Two studies of Femal Nudes, one standing on her left foot with her right knee bent facing left, the other three-quarter length turned to the left facing the viewer in an Album of Forty-eight drawings; the two figures verso are possibly for the Fountain of Youth
pencil on paper
1885 circa
Dimensions: 22.6 cm x 14.7 cm
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The two figures verso are possibly for the Fountain of Youth
William Waters
17/01/2021
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Mrs Helen Mary “May” Gaskell (née Helen Mary Melville, Mrs. Henry Gaskell)
1939
Ashmolean Museum
1939 - Present
WA1939.9.32 Presented by Mrs Helen Mary Gaskell, CBE, 1939
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William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthy
1994
pp. 548, 673
A Profound Secret: May Gaskell and her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jones
Josceline Rose Dimbleby, née Gaskell
2004
p 192-193