By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Study for the Beggar Maid in King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid; Study for King Cophetua verso. The modelfor the singer is probably Jessie Keene (b.1872), or possibly her older sister Laura (b.1867/8), who also modelled for painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s.
pencil on paper
Dimensions: 27 cm x 15 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum
Signed
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
J. S. Maas & Co Ltd 1962-1964 W3044 bt from J Woodward; sold to DH Woodward
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Pre-Raphaelites and Art Nouveau, Maas Gallery, June for three weeks1964 cat no. 5 £55 J. S. Maas & Co Ltd
June 1964 July 1964
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
William Morris: A Life for Our Time Fiona MacCarthy 1994
pp. XIV, 138
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. VII between pp. 102-103 pp. 162-163, 178, 210, 266, 274, 284, 294-298, 326, 333, 341-345, 361, 398, 424, 510-511, 520