By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, After Vittore Carpaccio
Sketch of St George mounted on his steed after Carpaccio
Watercolour and pencil on paper
1859
Dimensions: 15.6 cm x 22.7 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum
Inscribed upper right; Carpaccio / S. Giorgio di Schiavoni (?)

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

From Carpaccio's St. George fighting the Dragon. (Jan Lauts, 'Carpaccio', pl. 108).

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 1084.9a 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
pl. 108
Burne-Jones William Waters, Martin Harrison 1973
illus fig. 42 p. 36
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 pls. XXVII, XXIX and pls. 2, 15, 25, 32 between pp. 486-487 and in the text p. 192 pp. 106-107, 134-135, 138, 161, 170, 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