1943.452: The Blessed Damozel

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.452

People

Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)

Title

The Blessed Damozel

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1856-1861

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298024

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions

40.7 x 20.7 cm (16 x 8 1/8 in.)
strainer: 41.2 x 20.9 cm (16 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
frame: 64.8 x 44.5 x 6.4 cm (25 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• gallery label: back of frame, printed and inscribed: Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. / NEW GALLERY / WINTER EXHIBITION, 1898-9. / Title [added in black ink:] The Blessed Damozel
• inscription: back of canvas, graphite: 4897[?]/[illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas E. Plint; his sale [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 7, 1862, lot 203] sold; to "Clayton." T. G. Arthur, Glasgow. Charles Fairfax Murray. Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.452

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Drawing is on paper, on another layer of paper mounted on canvas, wrapped around a strainer.

Publication History

• Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of English Pictures and Drawings, Formed by that distinguished Patron of Art, Thomas E. Plint, Esq., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, March 7, 1862), lot 203
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 4
• John Christian, Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1975), under no. 23, p. 25
• John Christian, "'A Serious Talk': Ruskin's Place in Burne-Jones's Artistic Development", Pre-Raphaelite Papers, Tate Britain (London, 1984), pp. 184-205, p. 193, pl. 85
• Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Drawings, auct. cat. (June 19, 1984), under lot 27
• Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Feminity, Harmony Books (New York, 1987), p. 56, fig. 44
• Saskia de Bodt, "Les fleurs et la modernité. Les jardins comme source d'inspiration, de l'art & craft à l'aube de l'art", L'Empire de flore: histoire et représentation des fleurs en Europe du XVIe au XIXe siècle, ed. Sabine van Sprang, La Renaissance du Livre (Brussels, 1996), p. 322, repr. p. 320
• Debra N. Mancoff, Burne-Jones, Pomegranate (San Francisco, CA, 1998), pl. 3 (color), also repr. p. 18 (detail, color), p. 25
• Christopher Wood, Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, England, 1998), repr. p. 19 (color)
• Stephen Wildman and John Christian, Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1998), under no. 8 and no. 19
• Elizabeth Prettejohn, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, 2000), p. 103, fig. 71 (color)
• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 30-1, repr. (color)
• Elizabeth Prettejohn, Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2007), p. 203, fig. 107
• Masaie Matsumura, Japan and Victorian England: Interactions, Osaka Kyoiku Tosho (Osaka, Japan, 2012), repr. p. 87
• Christiana Payne, Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours, exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 2021), p. 61, fig. 51

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, New Gallery, London, 12/31/1898 - 04/08/1899
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
• Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
• 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2016 - 04/21/2017

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