Sketch-book containing drawings of subjects in engravings by Lucas van Leydon and Bartel Beham, studies of St. Matthew and of St. Luke from North German limewood reliefs, of Greek and Roman friezes and bas-reliefs in the British Museum, and sketches from Attic vase paintings etc. 44 pages of cartridge paper (with 4 sheets of tracing paper pasted in), quarter-bound in black leather, green canvas boards. Inscribed by the artist with notes, and on a piece of paper pasted to the front cover 'Studies from Antique works. E. Burne-Jones'. Pencil, red chalk. Size of volume 7 3/4 by 10 1/4 E3-1955 Given by Dr W. L. Hildburgh, F.S.A. Note: The St. Matthew and St. Luke are copied from a set of the Evangelists in the Department of Architecture and Sculpture, Nos. 4841-4844-1858
Typewritten notes attached to the back of the sketchbook First entries obscured by V&A label ... a Baccanalian precession ... Battle of Greeks and .... ... engravings by Lucas van Leyden The Fall of Man, David's Triumph, ? David playing his harp before Saul ,Pyramis and Thisbe and The Old Woman with Grapes. 10. Adam and Eve , from an engraving by Bartel Beham 11. Maenad in a frenzy, from a bas-relief in the British Museum. 25. Hercules securing the stag which had frequented Mount Maenalus in Arcadia. From a bas-relief in the British Museum. 35. From a cast from a sarcophagus preserved in the Cathedral of Agrigentium, used as a baptismal font. In the British Museum. 36. The Drunken Pan. A sarcophagus relief in the British Museum. 38. A subject, Hercules, from an Attic vase painting perhaps copied from Pl. 159 in Winckelmann's Monumenta Ant. 41,42. St. Matthew and St. Luke. Nos. 4841-4844-1858 in the Department of Architecture and Sculpture. The sketchbook demonstrates the point at which Burne-Jones was leaving the strict medieval phase and toying with the neo-classicism of the mid-1860s. The transition was marked by his painting The Lament begun in 1864, finished in 1866. The change in direction was further encouraged by contact with Albert Moore and J M Whistler.