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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Art, oil panel on the Great Bookcase, for William Burges
oil on panel
1860
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Oils, tempera on canvas/panel and Mixed Media
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Sketchbook V&A E.1-1955 labelled on front cover 91 D 37, held in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A list within this sketchbook records the work done between 1856 and 1861. Amongst the work recorded for 1860 is the following entry:
"Small oil figure of Art Burges".

The model, possibly Georgiana appears to be the same as was used for the Angels in the tracery of the east window at Lyndhurst. But there is a similarity to the features of Fanny Cornforth in Rossetti's Bocca Baciata, of exactly the same date.

Boyce Diaries 1 August 1860
"Called on Jones. he was at work on a figure of Art for Burges' bookcase."

William Waters
21/01/2024
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
William Burges 1862-1933
Ashmolean Museum 1933 - Present 1933 WA1933.26 Purchased, 1933
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862 (Great London Exposition) Victoria and Albert Museum V&A (South Kensington Museum) May 1862 November 1862
Colour Revolution - Victorian, Fashion & Design Ashmolean Museum
September 2023 February 2024
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
World Furniture An Illustated History Charles Handley-Read (Charles and Lavinia (Stainton) Handley-Read) 1965
p 220 illus op cit p 224
Burne-Jones William Waters, Martin Harrison 1973
Illus fig. 47 p. 42
William Burges and the High Victorian Dream Joseph Mordaunt Crook 1981
p 321 ( second edition p 328 illus p 329)
Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols Sir Nicholas Beaver Penny 1992
Cat. no. 78
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 pls. XXII, XXVII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 13, 15, 26, 30, 31, 32, 43 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 112, 115, 180, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-45, 47-95, 97, 99, 103, 109, 111-138, 140-154, 156-168, 170-203, 205, 207-232, 234-235, 237-242, 245-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-351, 354, 357-361, 363-384, 386-389, 395-396, 398-400, 402, 404-416, 418-446, 451-472, 474, 476, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-502, 504-518, 520, 522-524, 526, 527-530, 534, 536
The Boyce Papers. The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce Sue Bradbury 2019
p 1042
The Making of a Triptych: The Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi 1861 by Edward Burne-Jones Ms Rachel Scott, Dr Fiona Mann, Miss Katherine Hinzman, Joyce H. Townsend, Alistair Johnson 2022
illus fig. 31
William Burges's Great Bookcase & the Victorian Colour Revolution Charlotte Ribeyrol 2023
p 19, 26, 29, 66 pl 0.9 p 18
Colour Revolution - Victorian, Fashion & Design Matthew Winterbottom, Charlotte Ribeyrol 2023
p 161-121 fig 104


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