By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Letter
Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 25.5 cm x 12 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Watercolour, Gouache, Vellum, Gold, Finished Works and tempera on Paper, Works on Paper / Vellum

The drawing was used by William Morris as a design for a double-tile; known only from a photograph at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Jeremy Stephen Maas
27/05/2022
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1898
David Gould 1965
J. S. Maas & Co Ltd 1965-1965 Pre-Raphaelites to Post Impressionists cat no. 10 W4894 bt from D Gould; sold to Mrs C. Tennant
Lady Glenconner (Anne Veronica Tennant, Dowager Baroness Glenconner, nee Anne Veronica Coke) 1965-2025
Bonhams Auctioneers UK 2025-2025 Lady Glenconner ; My Life in Objects & a Farqhar Legacy 18 Nvember 2025 lot 68 £5,500
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Pre-Raphaelites to Post-Impressionists Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours Maas Gallery 3-21 May 1965 cat no. 10 £250 J. S. Maas & Co Ltd
May 1965 May 1965
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. II between pp. 102-103 and pl. XIII between pp. 230-231 and pl. XXVII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 1, 2, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 112, 115, 192 pp. 6, 13, 15-16, 30-39, 41-42, 44-49, 51-52, 55-57, 59, 61, 63, 65-72, 75, 79, 81-82, 84, 86, 88, 91, 95, 99, 109, 111-120, 124-130, 132-134, 136-138, 141-151, 153-154, 156, 158-159, 161-162, 164-166, 169-172, 177-186, 188, 191-192, 194, 196-199, 202, 205, 208-216, 221-224, 228, 231, 234-236, 238, 240-242, 244-247, 253-299, 301-304, 306-307, 310, 312-314, 316-317, 319-320, 323, 325, 334-355, 352, 355, 357-358, 364, 366-367, 371, 377, 379-380, 384-389, 391-396, 364, 394, 403-404, 409, 411-412, 414, 419, 427-436, 438, 445, 460-463, 465-470, 474, 476, 479-481, 488, 490-491, 494, 496-497, 599-502, 504, 506-507, 511-518, 520, 522-524, 529