Description: Coverboards covered with white linen. Front cover has horizontal slits at the upper and lower right sides. Off-white paper. Collocation: each sheet is separately taped to the binding; there are 28ff and a single beige sheet on either side of these. Front and back leaves are blank, recto and verso. Inscription(s): ; front cover, upper centre; graphite MS label; 64 ; inside front cover, on sheet, upper left; sheet pasted down, printed label stuck to sheet; Milano / ROBERSON & CO. / 99, LONG ACRE, / LONDON.; the word 'Milano' is a graphite addition to the printed label ; inside front cover, on sheet, near top; graphite; In Bellie Arte. Blue shadows to drapery - pink middle tint. Ligh(erased) yellow lights. / An angel in Riccardi Chapel - green shadows, pink middle line, light yellow lights / the shadows are of 2 greens - terravert for the deepest / & light grass green shading into pink. ; inside front cover, on sheet, centre; black ink; Sketchbook of Sir Edward Burne-Jones used on his third and last visit to Italy in the Spring of 1873 (See Memorials of E. B-J. vol. II PP.35-37). / Given to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by the / artist's children - Philip Burne-Jones & Margaret Mackail. / July 1922. Parts(s): 1070(5).f.1; Above, sketch of a detail from episodes from the Life of St. Onuphrius 'Paphnutius takes Onuphrius for a strange beast and in fright starts to run away'; below, an angel surrounded by rays 1070(5).f.2; Nude study of a man with his left arm upraised in front of his body, his right fore arm pulled behind his head, and his left leg, with lower part incomplete, upraised 1070(5).f.3; Two studies: above, three figures with snakes coiled around their heads and necks, standing on top of a battlement which is surrounded by fire, mountainous background; below, three naked warriors standing before a large well and behind craggy rocks, the figures at left and right are holding large clubs and shields, and the one in the centre holds a broad knife 1070(5).f.4; Copy of the Madonna and Child from the right wing of the 'Presentation of Christ' from the Andrea Mantegna triptych in the Uffizi 1070(5).f.5; Copy of the two figures of saints in the right foreground from the left wing 'The Ascension' from the Andrea Mantegna triptych in the Uffizi 1070(5).f.6; Jupiter at the left and Mars at the right above an eagle and a dog respectively 1070(5).f.7; Copy of a detail from the 'Relief of Bethulia by Judith'; lower half of page, study of two babies in far left foreground from the 'Massacre of the Innocents' in the Duomo, Sienna 1070(5).f.8; Copy of the central figure group from 'The Massacre of the Innocents' on the floor of the Duomo 1070(5).f.9; Copy of the lower left area from the story of Jephthah on the floor of the Duomo, composed of a wolf (?) coming out of a group of rocks, and at right, the hind end of a horse; below, copy of the area above the central figure 1070(5).f.10; Copy of the group of figures at the right centre of the 'Massacre of the Innocents' 1070(5).f.11; Copy of two horsemen at the left centre of the 'Relief of Bethulia' 1070(5).f.12; Sketch of two galloping horsemen 1070(5).f.13; Copy of Christ surrounded by circles of angels from Giovanni di Paolo's 'Last Judgement' 1070(5).f.14; Study of a bull; inscription; narrow passage between sets of buildings 1070(5).f.15; View along a street; lower left, silhouette of Madonna and Child flanked by figures within a niche 1070(5).f.16; View along a city street with several figures 1070(5).f.17; View through an archway down a curved city street 1070(5).f.18; View down a narrow city street with silhouetted figures intermittently placed 1070(5).f.19; Sketch of window and balcony; centre right, sketch of two manuscript pages; lower centre, sketch of a beast with a lion's head, a goat's head and a snake's (?) head attached to a single body 1070(5).f.20; Top, sketch of the city as seen in the distance; below, view down a narrow city street lined with buildings 1070(5).f.21; View down a city street; sketch of a figure (sculpture?) of a woman (Roman?) 1070(5).f.22; 'Mountain from Volterra'; below, study of a building with archways below and columnar supports above 1070(5).f.23; 'Street in Gimignano - coming from Sienna' 1070(5).f.24; Sketch of a group of putti holding bows, arrows, twisted pieces of cloth and threads 1070(5).f.25; Sketch of four demons with human bodies and the heads and wings of birds 1070(5).f.26; Copy of the far left figure from the Mantegna painting 'Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Grove of Virtue' 1070(5).f.27; Nude male figure (?)fighting a bull 1070(5).f.28; Copy of a detail - the Virgin being supported - from the Mantegna painting (Louvre, Paris).
Memorials Vol 2 p 26 of the 1871 journey Burne-Jones stated that "Looking back over all that he had seen in his journey, he wrote that to the names of painters whose work he loved most must now be added those of Paolo Uccello, Orcagna, and Piero della Francesca; " so that now I care most Michael Angelo, Luca Signorelli, Mantegna, Giotto, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca""