By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Seven designs for the Fairy Family by Archibald MacLaren: An Italian Town; An Armed crusader with a Seated damozel; An Alpine Chalet; A Mother and Child in a garden; Christ in Hades; Romantic Couples at a Lakeside; Two figures by a Misty Pool
Pen and ink and wash on paper
1854 - 1856
Dimensions: 13.5 cm x 9 cm
Diameter: 7 cms
Collection Categories
Early Pen & Ink on vellum & paper done whilst working under D G Rossetti, Illustration, Works on Paper / Vellum
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Mrs Ferelith Eccles-Williams 1972 Sold Sotheby's Belgravia
Sotheby's Belgravia 1972-1972 22 February 1972 lot 54 £500 Hartnoll and Eyre
Hartnoll & Eyre Ltd. 1972
Private
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Pre-Raphaelite & Other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection cat no. 30 a-g illus p. 64 Royal Academy of Arts
September 2003 December 2003
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Fairy Family: A Series of ballads and Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe Archibald Maclaren 1857
Frontispiece, title page and tailpiece by Burne-Jones
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones GB-J Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1904
pp. 100, 120, 135-136
Burne-Jones and "The Fairy Family" Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green 1944
p. 420 - Also 9 November 1956, p. 665
Burne-Jones William Waters, Martin Harrison 1973
Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19Illus figs 15-22 pp. 18-19
Burne-Jones Studies I: Burne-Jones's Drawings for 'The Fairy Family' John Christian 1973
Prices of Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours Peter Nahum 1976
Under Drawings and Watercolours - Burne-Jones
The Fairy Family, Archibald Maclaren, illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones Archibald Maclaren 1985
'Too beautiful not to be true': Edward Burne-Jones Debra N Mancoff 2003
The Truth about Faeries Dr Anne Anderson, Graham Ovenden 2009
Cat no. 39 illus p. 49 copy belonging to the Ovenden collection
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
pp. 38-41, 63-64, 68, 83, 357, 531
Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain 24 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 Dr Alison Smith, Dr Tim Batchelor, Dr Suzanne Elizabeth Fagence Cooper, Professor Colin Cruise, Charlotte Mary Helen Gere, Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn, Nicholas Tromans 2018
Cat. no. 4 illus p. 48 (Steven Calloway's copy)