By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Nude study of a reclining man, head and torso slumped over rock, body situated so back, top of head and the front of legs are visible for the Briar Wood, Briar Rose series
on paper
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum

Recto: the legs of this figure with slight modifications are those found iun the upper right figure of the 1884 'Briar Wood', however the position of the arms and the shortening of the torso so that it is not visible are not part of the final painting.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
22/10/2021
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Sir Philip William Burne-Jones 1898-1926
Sotheby's London (Sotheby & Co) 1926-1926 Philip Burne-Jones auction Sotheby’s November 10, 1926
Charles de Sousy Ricketts 1926-1931
Charles Haslewood Shannon 1926-1937
The Fitzwilliam Museum 1937 1991B.f.12 Bequeathed (1937-03) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. VIII between pp. 102-103 and pl. XXVII between pp. 358-359 and pp. 2, 15, 32 between pp. 486-487and in the text p. 192 pp. 134-136, 138, 161, 169, 170-172, 175-177, 188, 191, 209, 216, 245, 250, 253, 258-260, 273, 291, 307-308, 332-333, 354, 361-362, 378, 393, 401-404, 411, 414, 417, 428, 444, 448, 485-487, 500-502, 504-506, 524