By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, After Vittore Carpaccio
At left, colour sketch of a head and shoulders, seen from the back after Carpaccio (1); to right, sketch of a man, lower legs incomplete from Carpaccio's painting 'The Engaged Couple being Greeted by the Pope.(2) Sketch of a soldier
Watercolour and pencil on paper
1859
Dimensions: 14.2 cm x 10.8 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum
to right of sketch (1); graphite; yellow hair ; verso, to left of figure; graphite; scarlet knots / scarlet bow; figure is upside down in relation to

Originally mounted in an album (No. 1084), from which leaf 1 was not illustrated and leaf 2 was missing.

Recto (2): Copy of the figure standing to the left of the clerics from Carpaccio's painting 'The Engaged Couple being Greeted by the Pope. (Lauts, pl. 18). Verso: The figure is a copy of the lower right foreground figure from Carpaccio's painting 'The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians on Mount Ararat'. (Lauts, pl. 179, detail pl. 180).

To right of sketch (1); graphite; yellow hair; verso, to left of figure:
Graphite; scarlet knots / scarlet bow; figure is upside down in relation to drawing, recto; verso, to right of figure:
Graphite; gold mail / steel band / blue / yellow & red / with black slashes / & knots; figure is upside down in relation to drawing, recto.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
12/03/2019
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Margaret Burne-Jones (Mrs John William Mackail) 1898-1923
Sir Philip William Burne-Jones 1898-1923
The Fitzwilliam Museum 1923 - Present 1084.9c From the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones, and Mrs Mackail
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Carpaccio: Painting and drawings Jan Lauts 1962
pls. 18, 179 detail pl. 180
Burne-Jones, Fairfax Murray and Siena David Duncan Robinson 1975
p. 348 No. 165, note 3, p. 350
Burne-Jones' Second Italian Journey - Apollo November 1975 John Christian 1975
p. 334, 336 And 337, Note to page 337
Two Early Altarpieces by Burne-Jones, Apollo 1975 Ronald Parkinson 1975
p. 322
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pls. VI, VIII between pp. 102-103 and pl. XXVII, XXIX between pp. 358-359 and pls, 2 15, 21, 25, 32 between pp. 486-487 and in the text p. 192 pp. 91, 106-107, 134-135, 138, 161, 169-172, 175-177, 191, 197-198, 209, 216, 224, 245, 250, 253, 258-260, 273, 287, 291, 307-309, 332-333, 377-381, 392-393, 411, 417, 422, 428, 442, 444, 448, 465, 474, 480, 485-487, 498, 500-502, 504-506, 509, 516, 524-525