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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Two preliminary studies for The Tale of the Wife of Bath: above, to left, standing knight in bedchamber, right, dishevelled figure seated on bed, semi-circular window in background; below, to left, knight is seated upon left-hand end of bed, holding hands with nude, standing female figure Kelmscott Chaucer
conté crayon, the two sketches individually surrounded by drawn rectangles, on laid paper
1892 circa - 1896 circa
Dimensions: 32.6 cm x 20.7 cm
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For Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 114 and 115 (not used in final design).
23/08/2019
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
1922 - Present
1079/29 given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
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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