Study of a bud

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Date: c. 1860-1870
Dimensions: 11.5 x 18
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D469
Artist: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Credit notes: Gift of Dominic Dunlop, 2018

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Date: c. 1868
Dimensions: 11.1 x 16cm
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on tracing paper
Catalogue number: D196
Artist: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Credit notes: Purchased 1954

Pencil sketch illustration by Edward Burne-Jones for “The Ring given to Venus” for William Morris’s projected edition of The Earthly Paradise, 1865-68. The Earthly Paradise is an epic poem structured as a frame story, similar to Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. It tells the story of a group of Norsemen who have fled a plague in Europe in search of the mythical earthly paradise. Eventually they come to a land where the inhabitants still worship the ancient Greek gods. They decide to stay here and each month the wanderers and the city elders exchange tales. ‘The Earthly Paradise’ contains the tales from a whole year, comprising twenty-four stories. This illustration accompanied the story for the month of October and concerns a man who on his wedding- day unwittingly gave his wedding ring to the Goddess Venus.

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Date: 1886
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D231
Artist: Solomon, Simeon, 1840, 1905
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Martha Lugg Wooldridge, 1955

This portrait shows the head of a youth, representing Love in sleep. The portrait recalls Simeon Solomon’s mystical prose piece called Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep which he published privately in 1871. The narrative, which was of central importance to the artist’s career, was based on the platonic theme of the fulfillment of the soul through earthly love.

Object Type: drawing

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