By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, After Vittore Carpaccio, After Bonifazio Veronese (Bonifacio de' Pitati)
Recto: top, sketch of a woman; lower right, sketch of a woman seated at a table from The Parable of the Rich Man (Dives) and Lazarus Bonifacio De' Pitati detto Bonifacio Veronese; Verso: sketch of a sailing ship, below, a sketch of a ribboned flag on a pole, from Carpaccio's painting 'The Return of the Ambassadors to the King of England
Watercolour and pencil on paper
1859
Dimensions: 17.2 cm x 12.7 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum

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

Recto (1): from Bonifazio's 'Rich Man's feast', in the Accademia, Venice, (Berenson: Italian Painters of the Renaissance', Phaidon, pl. 90). Verso (1): this is the background vessel, and the flag (2) is a copy of that found at the left of Carpaccio's painting 'The Return of the Ambassadors to the King of England', from the cycle of the Scuola di Sant' Orsala. (Lautts pl. 36).

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 1084.12a From the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones, and Mrs Mackail
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Italian Painters Of The Renaissance Bernard and Mary Berenson (Bernhard Valvrojenski) 1953
pl. 90
Carpaccio: Painting and drawings Jan Lauts 1962
pl. 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