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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Two preliminary studies for The House of Fame: names of the famous inscribed in the ice; below; Overlooking the Battlement, and Fame's House Kelmscott Chaucer
graphite, studies with individual graphite borders, on laid paper
1892 circa - 1896 circa
Dimensions: 32.3 cm x 20.2 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Illustration, Works on Paper / Vellum
Inscription: recto, upper right; graphite; 4 ; recto, below upper study; graphite; the glass mountain full of names ; recto, lower right; graphite; 5
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For Kelmscott Chaucer, upper study for p. 459, lower study unused in final design.
07/08/2019
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
1922 - Present
1079/117* given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
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Page No. & Illustrations
Attachments
William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthy
1994
pp. 247-248, 659 illus colour pl. XXXIV
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Fiona MacCarthy
2011
pp. 430-433, 441, 465-467