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Study of a draped female figure for 'The Garland Weavers'

Maker

(artist)
1833-1898

Title

Date of Production

(probably) 1866

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3800

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

Keywords

Label Text

This is one of a number of drapery studies which Burne-Jones made in preparation for a series of six stained-glass panels for the Green Dining Room of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). These were installed by the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co which Burne-Jones had helped to found. The finished design shows the draped female figure reaching out to pick a rose from a tall bush. The delicate hatched shading is typical of the artist’s drawing technique of the mid-1860s.

Notes

A study for a series of six stained glass panels called 'The Garland Weavers', installed in the Green Dining Room at 1 Palace Green (now in the V&A). There are ten other known studies, including in Birmingham and Hammersmith and Fulham Public Libraries.

Provenance

Beaux-Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for 140 shillings, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/02/2011-15/05/2011

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

Burne-Jones, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1928-1929

Literature

Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings & Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
no. 7
ill. on p. 58

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 7
ill. on p. 58

Sewter, A. Charles, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, New Haven and London, 1975
vol. 2, p. 104
pl. 269 ...More

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite, signed with artist’s initials: "E.B.J.". Verso: lower centre edge, graphite: "l 10 3/4 x 5 ¾".

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