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Musica - design for an embroidery panel

Maker

After (?)
(artist)
1833-1898

Title

Musica - design for an embroidery panel

Date of Production

c. 1875

Medium

traces of black chalk under pen and brown ink, framed with double brown ink lines, on wove paper, laid down on board and laid down on a Witt mount

Dimensions

Height: 57.6 cm
Width: 33.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3410

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, in part exchange, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart 1899, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1971

Literature

Waters, Bill, Burne-Jones, Barrie & Jenkins, London 1973
p. 117

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none visible as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: on banderole in upper centre of drawing, brown ink, title in artist's hand: "MUSICA". Witt mount, Recto: lower right corner, graphite, now erased but still mostly visible, Lady Witt’s hand: “Sir Edward Burne-Jones / 1833-1898 / Musica” and in lower right corner “Burne-Jones”.

Collector's mark: Witt mount, Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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