By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, After Jacobo Tintoretto (Il Furioso, Jacopo Robusti, Jacopo Comin)
Sketch of a woman's head seen in three-quarter view from the back Sketch of a woman's head and part of her torso, almost in profile; after Tintoretto, 'The Marriage at Cana' (The Wedding Feast at Cana)
graphite on paper
1859
Dimensions: 14.2 cm x 10.8 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum
Inscription: upper right; graphite; Tintoretto Cana Marriage

Recto: this head is a copy of that of the figure seated third from the right at the right side of the table from Tintoretto's 'Marriage at Cana' (Tietze, Tintoretto, fig. 116).

The Fitzwilliam Museum
28/09/2019
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 1084.14b From the artist's children, Sir Philip Burne-Jones, and Mrs Mackail.
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
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 between pp. 358-359 and pls, 2, 15, 21, 25, 32 between pp. 486-487 and in the text p. 192 pp. 134-135, 138, 144-145, 161, 169-172, 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